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Giving Good Weight
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Giving Good Weight (1979) (edit title/settings)

by John McPhee (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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YOU PEOPLE COME into the market-the Greenmarket, in the open air under the downpouring sun-and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails.

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Giving Good Weight

The Atlantic Generating Station

The Pinball Philosophy

The Keel of Lake Dickey

Brigade de Cuisine

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  1. John McPhee (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Publication Date: 1979
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Page Count: 261

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