Toronto. AlfredA. Knopf Canada. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21.5cm, the first edition, 317p., white clothwith silver titles on spine, a fine copy in a fine jacket. (lt).

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Turtle Valley is the fifth book to come from talented Canadian author Gail Anderson-Dargatz, whose novels have been published in several languages worldwide. Her first novel The Cure For Death By Lightning met with terrific acclaim and garnered her the UK’s Betty Trask Award and a nomination for Canada’s Giller Prize. A Recipe For Bees soon followed with nominations for the Giller and the IMPAC Dublin Award. A Rhinestone Button was a national bestseller in Canada and her first book, The Miss Hereford Stories , was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Her style has been called “Margaret Laurence meets Gabriel García Márquez” because her writing tends towards magic realism, but Anderson-Dargatz says the ghosts and premonitions in her novels arise from her family’s stories of the Shuswap-Thompson area, which she carefully transcribed. “My father passed on the rich stories and legends about the region I grew up in, which he heard from the interior Salish natives he worked with,” she explains. “And my mother told me tales of her own premonitions, and of ghosts, eccentrics and dark deeds that haunted the area.” Anderson-Dargatz has recently moved home to British Columbia’s Shuswap-Thompson area, that landscape found in so much of her writing. She is married to photographer Mitch Krupp, who took the beautiful photos that are reproduced throughout Turtle Valley . Now at work on her next novel, she is an adjunct professor in the creative writing optional-residency MFA program at the University of British Columbia. Of her inspiration for Turtle Valley , Anderson-Dargatz writes, “It all started back in 1998 when I helped evacuate my parents from the Salmon Arm fire. Almost the whole city was evacuated, in what was the largest peacetime evacuation in the history of BC up to that time. It was both terrifying and visually beautiful, as fire quite literally rained down on the Salmon River Valley. Even as we went through it, I knew I would write of it someday, and I did, in Turtle Valley .” From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC) (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33003
Title: A Rhinestone Button
Author: ANDERSON-DARGATZ, Gail
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Toronto. AlfredA. Knopf Canada. 2002
Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE MODERN FIRST SIGNED NOVEL FICTIONCONTEMPORARY

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