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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living: A Novel
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living A Novel
Author: Carrie Tiffany
The "Better-Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of 1930s Australia, bringing advice to farmers. Amid the swaying cars full of cows, pigs, and crops, a strange and swift seduction occurs between Jean Finnegan, a sewing instructor, and Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil. In an atmosphere of hea...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743286381
ISBN-10: 0743286383
Publication Date: 7/10/2007
Pages: 240
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4.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Having traveled in Australia, I loved that this book takes place in Australia. Having been in relationships with men, I loved how this book captures "guys" and the ways in which they don't connect with women. Plus, it has the Depression, the dust bowl, the beginnings of WWII, and the same xenophobia that the US endured. And the notion of a train that's a virtually a complete farm is fascinating! What's not to love?


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