Dargatz, Gail Anderson creator Boyce, Pleuke translator text cb Toronto Alfred A.Knopf Canada 1998 monographic eng

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311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm . Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things. Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept bees, headstrong Augusta marries shy, deferential Karl, twelve years her senior, and goes to live with him on his father's remote farm. Terrified that she will literally die from loneliness and isolation, she finds work in town, and for a short time, fulfillment with another man in a romance that will reverberate throughout her life. Not until many years later does she find her salvation in beekeeping, the practice she first learned from her mother. It is beekeeping that reconnects her to the world and at long last brings fire to her steadfast marriage. X 890 Lexile estimate X Raz-Plus by Gail Anderson-Dargatz beekeeping non-fiction Canadian non-fiction British Columbia non-fiction PR9199.A49 813.54 0676971008 FISKH 241120 20241120144543.0 5235 eng