October Ferry to Gabriola
First edition (publ. World Publishing)
October Ferry to Gabriola is a novel by Malcolm Lowry. Edited by his widow Margerie Bonner, it was posthumously published in 1970.
It is an existential love story featuring a Lowry-like character, Ethan Llewelyn, and his wife, in their never-fully-consummated journey to Gabriola, one of the Gulf Islands off the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The themes are living, loving, drinking, travel, mysticism, and literature in the 1940s.
Details[]
- Lowry, Malcolm (1970), October Ferry to Gabriola. Last Novel (First ed.), New York: The World Publishing Company
- Lowry, Malcolm (1970), October Ferry to Gabriola. Last Novel, Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 0888945922
External links[]
- Corrigan, Matthew. Lowry's Last Novel, A Review from Canadian Literature vol. 48, 1971. p.74-80
- Foxcroft, Nigel H. The Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans (Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2019). ISBN 978-1-4985-1657-0. [1]
- A Review from Time Magazine November 1970
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Categories:
- 1970 British novels
- English novels
- Novels published posthumously
- Novels set in British Columbia
- Fiction set in the 1940s
- Novels set on islands
- 1970s novel stubs