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The World of Apples received outstanding reviews upon its release, and according to biographer Blake Bailey "some of the best reviews of Cheever's career." [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Literary critic Lynne Waldeland reports that Larry Woiwode of the New York Times Book Review praised the volume as "an extraordinary book, a transfiguring experience for the ...
The scatological themes contrast sharply with the virtuous and innocent topics that characterize his most popular volume of poetry, The World of Apples. When Bascomb finds himself writing the word "F- - k" repeatedly, he takes his housekeeper's advice to make a pilgrimage to a local shrine where visitors might have their thoughts purified.
Richard Cox (c. 1766 – 20 May 1845) was an English brewer and horticulturist who bred the apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin and Cox's Pomona. Cox operated the Black Eagle Brewery located at 27 White's Grounds, Bermondsey , London [ 1 ] until 1820, when he retired with his wife Ann to The Lawns (later Colnbrook Lawn ) [ 2 ] in Colnbrook ...
Satyananda was born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr., in an American Quaker family. His father, a very successful businessman, was the founder of the Stokes and Parish Machine Company which was a leading manufacturer of elevators in the USA.
Northern Spy also called 'Spy' and 'King', is a cultivar of domesticated apple that originated on the farm of Oliver Chapin in East Bloomfield, New York, in about 1840. [1] [2] [3] It is popular in upstate New York.
Apples Never Fall exists in the middle of a Venn diagram between full-blown murder mystery thrillerdom, and an almost soap operatic depiction of crumbling dynasties. It is an emerging portmanteau ...
1865 watercolor of an Api apple by Alphonse Mas. The Lady is a historic apple cultivar originating in Brittany, France in at least 1628. The cultivar has gained a variety of known names in English, and is commonly referred to as Api or the Lady Apple. [a] As a seedling, the apple has the names Helen and Highland Beauty.
John Bunker (born 1950 or 1951) is an American orchardist, pomologist, and "apple explorer". [1] [2] [3] An expert on American apples and their history, [4] [5] [6] he is the founder of the mail-order nursery Fedco Trees, a division of the cooperative Fedco Seeds. [7]