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Giving Good Weight
Giving Good Weight
Author: John McPhee
"You people come into the market—the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun—and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are—people of the c...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374516000
ISBN-10: 0374516006
Publication Date: 4/1/1994
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Best writer of declarative sentences in America. Makes the complex simple and you can taste the meals he describes.
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Compilation of articles written for "The New Yorker" between 1975 and 1979. Writing so good it gives you the shivers as you find yourself engrossed in diverse topics that you never thought would be interesting.
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