October Ferry to Gabriola

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October Ferry to Gabriola is a novel posthumously published by Malcolm Lowry and edited by his widow Margerie Bonner.

It is an existential love story featuring the Lowry-like character, Ethan Lleweyllen, and his wife in their never fully consumated journey to Gabriola, an island near Vancouver in British Columbia. The themes: Living, loving, drinking, travel mysticism, and literature in the 1940s.


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