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001			ASIN0743286375
005			20110910065025.0
008			110910s2006 xxu eng d
020			_a0743286375 (hardcover) _c$23.00
020			_a9780743286374 (hardcover)
082	0	4	_a813.6
100	1		_aTiffany, Carrie.
245	1	0	_aEveryman's rules for scientific living : _ba novel / _cCarrie Tiffany.
250			_a1st Scribner Edition, 2006 ed.
260			_aNewyork: _bScribner, _c2006.
300			_a240 p. ; _c20 cm.
500			_aDeckle Edge.
520			_aThe "Better-Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of 1930s Australia, bringing advice to farmers. Amid the swaying cars full of cows, pigs, and crops, a strange and swift seduction occurs between Jean Finnegan, a sewing instructor, and Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil. In an atmosphere of heady idealism, they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of transforming the land through science. In luminous prose Tiffany writes about the challenges of farming, the character of small towns, the stark and terrifying beauty of the Australian landscape, and the fragile relationship between man, science, and nature. This is a sensual and startlingly original debut that establishes Carrie Tiffany as one of the great new voices in fiction.
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743286375/chopaconline-20
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