Finnie Walsh

In the Finnie Walsh By Steven Galloway, Paul Woodward, the novel’s narrator, meets Finnie in the fall of 1980, when they are both third graders. They are from opposite sides of the track in the small mill town of Portsmouth; Finnie’s father owns the mill where Paul’s father works. The boys’ shared love of hockey brings them together; friendship keep them together, and forms one of the novel’s key themes. The story begins with the boys playing driveway hockey at the Woodwards’, while Paul’s father tries to get some sleep before his nightshift. Their play keeps him awake, and subsequently inattentive at work, he loses an arm in a sawmill accident. Finnie goes through alot of hardships as a young boy and needs to face advirsory in the novel, when he plays hockey and becomes a great. This novel has been a great start to the career of Steven Galloway and has had people grabbing this novel off the shelves.

4 out of 5 stars

210 pages.

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