Wintersong: The Nickel Range Trilogy, Volume 3

by Mick Lowe

It’s September, 1978 and the 11,700 hard rock miners and smelter and refinery workers of Inco’s Sudbury operations face a stark remain on the job without a contract or take seemingly suicidal strike action against a hard-nosed employer that’s accumulated a nickel stockpile vast enough to last a year without further production. A fateful choice is made, one that will change the lives of newlyweds Jake and Jo Ann McCool and the Canadian labor movement forever. Against a backdrop of unrelenting winter and swirling changes in social mores, the ensuing struggle triggers epical challenges few could have foreseen. The third and final volume of Mick Lowe’s sweeping Nickel Range Trilogy, Wintersong , is working class literature at its best, echoing the great tradition of writers like Upton Sinclair, Theodor Dreiser, Steinbeck and Dos Passos.

210 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2017

About the author

Mick Lowe is an award-winning journalist, author and writer, whose work has appeared in a diverse range of Canadian publications, including the The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post Magazine, and Northern Ontario Business.

On May 1st, 2008, Mick suffered a massive stroke that left him disabled – paralyzed on his left side, and confined to a wheelchair. Despite intensive rehabilitation therapy, the paralysis remains, forcing Mick into early unexpected retirement ending a 40 year career in professional writing.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well done. Mick Lowe's knowledge of the language, his writing talent and his compassion for his characters are skillfully used in this storytelling. The best novel of the trilogy....

(And by the way....notwithstanding Cam Newton)