Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees , brings readers once again into the heart of rural Canada with A Rhinestone Button . As funny as it is tender, it is a novel full of true-to-life characters, natural wonder, and sweet surprises. Despite growing up in the small ...
"My memories are so like that hat full of butterflies, some already deteriorating the moment they are collected, some breathed back to life now and again, for a brief moment, by the scent on a passing wind-the smell of an orange, perhaps, or a whiff of brown-sugar fudge-before drifting away, just out of my reach. How much of myself flits away with ...
A coming-of-age story narrated by 15-year-old Beth Weeks, whose only refuge from the violence and troubles in her dysfunctional rural family is her love for a half-Indian girl named Nora.
A Canadian beekeeper with a crisis in her present life looks back on her past, from her mother's death in childbirth to her marriage to a man she doesn't love and her affair with one she does. The novel is full of vivid descriptions of the peculiar pleasures and comforts of beekeeping.
A coming-of-age story narrated by 15-year-old Beth Weeks, whose only refuge from the violence and troubles in her dysfunctional rural family is her love for a half-Indian girl named Nora.
Job Sanstrum sees sound in colour; the hum of the vacuum cleaner creates a soothing glass egg in his hands, the resonant ring of a wet finger run around a wine glass generates hues of merging pastel colours like the shifting gloss of northern lights that grace the sky of his home town Godsfinger, Alberta. This is a community of curious characters, ...
Description: Signed by Author 1st printings of the first Canadian editions of the author's first two books SIGNED by Anderson-Dargatz: The Miss Hereford Stories (Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1994-1550541609) and The Cure for Death by Lightning (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1996-0394281578). The Miss Hereford Stories is a paperback original with french flaps. This is the true first edition of the author's first book SIGNED by Anderson-Dargatz on the title page with her DRAWING of a COW who says "Moo! " ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 2007
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Binding is tight, there appears to be little or no wear to the book. Bound in green hardcovers, with a light green 1/4 spine. Dust jacket shows very little or no wear as well. There is an oblong sticker to the front cover, which says, 'autographed copy'. Author signed the titlepage. 292 pages. read more
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