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A Rhinestone Button : a Novel by Recorded Books, Inc.;Anderson-Dargatz, Gail is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 farming town of Godsfinger, Alberta, Job Sunstrum was always a bit of an outsider. A thin young man with blond, curly hair, he loved baking and cooking, and certainly did not fit in with the rough-and-tumble farm boys around town. Even when Job takes over the farm after his father’s death and his brother’s departure to train as a pastor, his community remains his animals, and perhaps the church women with whom he shares his baking on Sundays. Lonely beyond belief, overwhelmed by religious guilt, and taut with fear at the thought of what life might have in store for him, Job can only turn to God and hope that someday, things will turn around. Only his synesthesia — his ability to see sounds as colours, and feel vibrations as solid forms — provides him with passing moments of solace, but it also reaffirms for him that he experiences the worl

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Author

Recorded Books, Inc.;Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Publisher

Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780676975505

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion