Book Information
READINGS OF UP IN ONTARIO
Hear James Sherrett read excerpts from Up in Ontario.
- At the Cabin (pages 11-14; 6.5 MB)
- Blindfold Creek (pages 82-83; 2.5 MB)
- Gone Two Days (pages 87-94; 16.5 MB)
- Kenora (pages 137-138; 2.3 MB)
LAKE OF THE WOODS
Learn more about what makes Lake of the Woods such a magical place. >>
WINNIPEG & MANITOBA
Find out how the story of Up in Ontario was shaped by the history of Winnipeg and the character of the Manitoba landscape. >>
UP IN ONTARIO NOVEL SYNOPSIS
Like the bedrock that lines the highways between Winnipeg and Lake of the Woods, Gilbert Dubois is unmoveable. He can't give up life as a trapper and fisher on the lake; nor his cabin on its shore. Not for Christine, the beautiful young law student from Winnipeg he marries, and not for their son Wade.
As Wade grows, the Lake of the Woods becomes to him a paradise where he summers with his dad. It's a yearly escape from the upscale existence he shares with his mother in Winnipeg.
Wade has come to terms with his parents, who are now friends-but-nothing-more; he has accepted his father's need to live off the land and his mother's remarriage.
Now, as Wade graduates from university with a love of his own, he must reconcile himself with the Lake of the Woods. Is this the place that has kept Wade and his father close all these years, event as it pulled his parents apart? Is it the place where Wade will forge a life for himself alongside his dad? Or is this place, this lake up in Ontario, caught between history and progress, the chasm that will separate the Dubois family forever?
ISBN: 0-88801-286-1
$18.95 Canadian / $16.95 US, quality
paperback 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 236 pages
SHOP FOR UP IN ONTARIO
The ageless struggle of Art and Commerce comes to a head at this decision point. Will you buy the book, Up in Ontario? Will you, in one brave stance, strike a blow for both Art and Commerce and perhaps buy two? Will you buy more?
