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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent A Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for
William Alexander
#UB5102
Paperback, 288 pages; 2007 (2006)
$13.95
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Anyone who tends a garden will laugh and groan at William Alexander's toils in the soil. When he moved with his wife and kids from the city of Yonkers to a small town in the hills along the Hudson River, Alexander was excited at the chance to realize his dream of growing a big, rambling garden. His idyllic quest presented him, however, with no shortage of challenges: weeds and webworms, deer and groundhogs, scythes and reel mowers, just to name a few. He enjoyed some success with his earth-tilling endeavors: "I had Built a Meadow! I felt a little like God, Zeus, and Martha Stewart all rolled into one." But the bulk of his memoir chronicles—with great humor—his many terrestrial debacles. In the end, the fact that each Brandywine tomato, per Alexander's calculations, cost him $64 to grow in no way deters him from his garden—the only thing bigger than the pain (and expense) of working the land is the joy of it!
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