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Cranberry Red: A Novel de Jerry Apps

Cranberry Red: A Novel

Autor Jerry Apps
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 oct 2010

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Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (2010)
The fourth novel in Jerry Apps’s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century.    
    As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost his job as agricultural agent for Ames County. He is soon hired as a research application specialist for Osborne University, a for-profit institution that has developed “Cranberry Red,” a new chemical that promises not only to improve cranberry crop yields but also to endow the fruits with the power to prevent heart disease, reduce brain damage from strokes, and ward off Alzheimer’s disease. Ben must promote the new product to cranberry growers in Ames County and beyond, but he worries whether the promised results are credible. Was Cranberry Red rushed to market?
    When the chemical does all that the university claims it will do, Ben is relieved . . . until disturbing side effects emerge. Can he criticize Cranberry Red and safeguard farmers and consumers without losing his job, or will Ben’s honesty get him fired while his community continues to get sicker?
Finalist, General Fiction, Midwest Book Awards
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299247706
ISBN-10: 0299247708
Pagini: 324
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

“Cranberry Red sparkles with warm and vivid characters.”—Dennis Boyer, Eagletree Farm

“Deceptively simple, deceptively rural, Cranberry Red raises tremendous social and moral questions in the context of a good story.”—Maryo Gard Ewell, Colorado Council on the Arts

“The fourth title in Apps’ Ames County, Wis., series offers a feel-good slice of 21st-century life in smalltown U.S.A. . . . [A] satisfying outside-the-city-limits tale.”—Publishers Weekly

"Apps approaches his familiar themes (honor, the importance of community, the increasing threat to traditional farming) from a new angle, focusing on the issue of genetic modification and its impact on an entire way of life. As usual, he creates compelling characters and places them in a vividly realized setting."—Booklist

Notă biografică

Jerry Apps, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His other Ames County novels are The Travels of Increase Joseph, In a Pickle, and Blue Shadows Farm. His many nonfiction books include Every Farm Tells a Story, Old Farm, Cheese, Breweries of Wisconsin, One-Room Country Schools, and Ringlingville USA. He has received the Major Achievement Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the Notable Author Award from the Wisconsin Library Association.

Cuprins

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Part I
1 Fred and Oscar
2 Lost Job
3 Beth Wesley
4 Local Agent Out
5 Shtogun Slogum
6 Visiting Slogum
Part II
7 Fred and Oscar
8 Phone Call
9 Dr. Sara Phillips
10 New Job?
11 Beth and Osborne University
12 Slogum's Advice
13 Conversation with Lars
14 Hailstorm
15 Cranberry Red
Part III
16 Fred and Oscar
17 Brittni Stone
The Osborne Dream
19 Business Office
20 Fourth of July
21 Gunnar Godson
22 Farm Visit
23 Business of the Year
24 Ben and Brittani
Part IV 
25 Fred and Oscar
26 RFD
27 Rules
28 Promoting RFD
29 RFD News
30 Celebration Planning
31 Ames County Fair
32 Cranberry Red Meeting
33 The Day After
34 Office Problems
35 Fish Survey
36 Fishing With Lars
37 Family Cookout
38 Celebration News
Part V
39 Fred and Oscar
40 Harvest at Slogum's
41 Gunnar's Discovery
42 Budget Shortfall
43 Paul and Gloria Mayer
44 Research Problem
45 RFD Collapses
46 Ben and Dr. Phillips
47 Healthy Always Cranberries
48 County Fari Eliminated
49 Beth Wins Osborne Award
Part VI
50 Fred and Oscar
51 Phillips and the Outreach Office
52 Chris Martin
53 Secret Meeting
54 Teaching Strategies
55 Gunnar's Research
56 Brittani and Chris
57 Two Faces of Osbourne
Part VII
58 Fred and Oscar
59 Queen Selection
60 Ups and Downs
61 Cranberry One-Fifty
62 Celebration Continues
63 Anonymous Letter
64 Gus and the Tamarack River
65 Ben and Shotgun Slogum
66 Osborne Commemorative Park
67 Fallout
Afterword

Descriere

The fourth novel in Jerry Apps’s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century.    
    As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost his job as agricultural agent for Ames County. He is soon hired as a research application specialist for Osborne University, a for-profit institution that has developed “Cranberry Red,” a new chemical that promises not only to improve cranberry crop yields but also to endow the fruits with the power to prevent heart disease, reduce brain damage from strokes, and ward off Alzheimer’s disease. Ben must promote the new product to cranberry growers in Ames County and beyond, but he worries whether the promised results are credible. Was Cranberry Red rushed to market?
    When the chemical does all that the university claims it will do, Ben is relieved . . . until disturbing side effects emerge. Can he criticize Cranberry Red and safeguard farmers and consumers without losing his job, or will Ben’s honesty get him fired while his community continues to get sicker?
 

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