The Weight Of Oranges

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708703
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oranges written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too—with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.

Author : Anne Michaels
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weight of Oranges/Miner's Pond written by Anne Michaels and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1997-04-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to her stunning début novel, Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels had already won prizes and acclaim for her two poetry collections. The Weight of Oranges and Miner’s Pond are now brought back into print in this one-volume collector’s edition. Published in 1986, The Weight of Oranges created a sensation, garnering the kind of praise rarely accorded a first book of poems. It went on to win the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas. Miner’s Pond appeared in 1991 and received the Canadian Authors Association Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award.

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122631X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oranges & Peanuts for Sale written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at the PEN World Voices Festival as a “post-national” writer, Eliot Weinberger is “a sparkling essayist” (Confrontation), and his writings “a boundary-crossing, shape-shifting cabinet of curiosities” (The Bloomsbury Review). Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in seventeen countries; some have never been published in English before. They include introductions for books of avant-garde poets; collaborations with visual artists, and articles for publications such as The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and October. One section focuses on writers and literary works: strange tales from classical and modern China; the Psalms in translation: a skeptical look at E. B. White’s New York. Another section is a continuation of Weinberger’s celebrated political articles collected in What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles (a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award), including a sequel to “What I Heard About Iraq,” which the Guardian called the only antiwar “classic” of the Iraq War. A new installment of his magnificent linked “serial essay,” An Elemental Thing, takes us on a journey down the Yangtze River during the Sung Dynasty. The reader will also find the unlikely convergences between Samuel Beckett and Octavio Paz, photography and anthropology, and, of course, oranges and peanuts, as well as an encomium for Obama, a manifesto on translation, a brief appearance by Shiva, and reflections on the color blue, death, exoticism, Susan Sontag, and the arts and war.

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802198724
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine

Author : Anne Michaels
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307559130
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Anne Michaels and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to her stunning first novel, Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels had already won awards and critical acclaim for two books of poetry: The Weight of Oranges (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and Miner's Pond (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was short-listed for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. Although they were published separately, these two books, along with Skin Divers, a collection of Michaels's newest work, were written as companion volumes. Poems brings all three books together for the first time, creating for American readers a wonderful introduction to Anne Michaels's poetry. Meditative and insightful, powerful and heart-moving, these are poems that, as Michael Ondaatje has written, "go way beyond games or fashion or politics . . . They represent the human being entire."

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.

Author : Paul Lewis Harding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasonal Changes in Florida Oranges written by Paul Lewis Harding and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Pickering
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516230863
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Like Oranges written by Robin Pickering and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the part of an orange, several kinds of oranges, and different ways to eat oranges.