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Giving Good Weight - John McPhee

By John McPhee

Release Date: 2011-04-01

Genre: Essays

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"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 city—and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.

Giving Good Weight - John McPhee

By John McPhee

Release Date: 2011-04-01

Genre: Essays

(0 ratings)

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"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 city—and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.

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Annals of the Former World

The Control of Nature

Coming into the Country

Draft No. 4

Encounters with the Archdruid

A Sense of Where You Are

The Pine Barrens

Assembling California

Levels of the Game

Basin and Range

Oranges

Uncommon Carriers

Looking for a Ship

Rising from the Plains

La Place de la Concorde Suisse

The Patch

The John McPhee Reader

The Headmaster

Silk Parachute

The Curve of Binding Energy

The Crofter and the Laird

The Founding Fish

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Irons in the Fire

In Suspect Terrain

Tabula Rasa

Heirs of General Practice

The Ransom of Russian Art

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

The Second John McPhee Reader

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Pieces of the Frame

A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

The Princeton Reader

They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

The Final Sunset

Tennis

The Princeton Anthology of Writing

Tabula rasa

Plac Zgody

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