#firstedition Job Sunstrum lives a solitary life in rough-and-tumble Godsfinger,#Alberta, where his soft#blond hair,#angelic features and preference for#baking rather than tending his herd aren't the only things that set him apart. Job's#extraordinary ability to see sound in dazzling colours and shapes- a phenomenon called synaesthesia-_transports us to a world where imagination and#magic meet, everyday occurrences take on a mystical hue and divine intervention drops from the sky. "The writing is funny and sharp, with dark notes struck beneath the humour, but overriding it all is Anderson- Dargatz's deep understanding of rural people and communities and her compulsive, infectious love for them." The Gazette (Montreal) "Few contemporary Canadian novelists can match [Gail Anderson-Dargatz's] ability to capture those moments of acutely observed rural life that coniure "The writing is funny and sharp, with dark notes struck beneath the humour, but overriding it all is Anderson- Dargatz's deep understanding of rural people and communities and her compulsive, infectious love for them." The Gazette (Montreal) "Few contemporary#Canadian novelists can match [Gail Anderson-Dargatz's] ability to capture those moments of acutely observed rural life that conjure mood and a way of life." The Globe and Mail GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATz is the author of the#bestselling novels The Cure for Death by Lightning (winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the VanCity Book#Prize and the Betty Trask Prize, and a Giller Prize finalist) and A Recipe for Bees (also a Giller Prize finalist and one of The Globe and Mail's top books of 1998) and of The Miss Hereford Stories.

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