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Gail Anderson-Dargatz

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http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca

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Literature & Fiction

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Gail's novels The Cure for Death by Lighting and A Recipe for Bees were international bestsellers, and were both finalists for the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada. The Cure for Death by Lightning won the UK’s Betty Trask Prize among other awards. A Rhinestone Button was a national bestseller in Canada and Gail's first book, The Miss Hereford Stories, was short-listed for the Leacock Award for humour. Turtle Valley, just out in trade paperback, is a Canadian bestseller.

Gail teaches fiction and novel in the creative writing optional-residency MFA program at the University of British Columbia, and divides her time between Manitoulin Island and the Shuswap-Thompson region, the landscape found in so much of her writing.

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Vincent Lam on writing a novel

Giller prize winner Dr. Vincent Lam talks about just how much "letting go" is involved in writing a novel in his guest blog on my website http://www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca.

Here’s a sample from Vincent’s blog:

“How to Ditch A Thousand Pages of Writing

First off, decide to write a novel.

If your goal is to jettison approximately a thousand – give or take a few hundred – pages of your own written wo... read more »

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Books by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Average rating: 3.54 · 2,430 ratings · 195 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Cure For Death By Lightning 3.59 avg rating — 1,263 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Recipe for Bees 3.51 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Turtle Valley 3.49 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Rhinestone Button 3.42 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Miss Hereford Stories 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	The Stalker 2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Recette Pour Les Abeilles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Remede a la Mort Par La Foudre 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Stalker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	the stalker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Turtle Valley (Literature & Fiction)

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Quotes by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

“Housework would never be her crowning achievement, the life's work for which she'd be known.”
― Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

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“She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.”
― Gail Anderson-Dargatz, A Recipe for Bees

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