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Carrie Tiffany
this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.
Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment of an era,
Their attraction is immediate, inexplicable, and intense, in spite of Finnegan's mutual flirtation and fascination with Mr, Ohno, a Japanese chicken sexer,
Finnegan is quiet, "dark," and watchful: she listens to the conversations around her, embroidering them into a veil that
Pettergree, a serious and dour redhead not an oxymoron, apparently, is fanatically invested in science and progress, He is the author of an earnest but absurdpoint "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living": ", . The only true foundation is a fact, . Avoid mawkish consideration of history and religion, . . "
Pettergree's commitment to "scientific living" is as devout as Finnegan's swift but fierce loyalty to him, Pity the woman who falls in love with a coldly rational man or, even worse, the man who aspires to be one! There is an early passage, from Finnegan's point of view, that beautifully sets the stage for their relationship:
The two marry and go off to some remote farm in Australia, Pettergree determined, via scientific methods, to wrest success from the unforgiving landscape.
Each year Jean, the "baking technician" of the outfit, faithfully rates, on a scale ofto, the crumb structure, crust color, and volume of loaves made from Robert's crops, measuring "the quality of wheats grown by Mr.
R. L. Pettergree of Wycheproof in regard to high yields of goodcolored flour with superior baking quality, " The charts, included in the narrative, show the devastating effects of drought, mouse plague, and wind stormsRobert's attendant disappointment and Jean's flagging spirits are implied.
In the end, science can account for neither the whims of nature nor the complexities of romantic attachment, Science never helps any of the characters, in fact: it only serves to justify or support ideas that seem patently cruel,
I'm at a loss when it comes to articulating my feelings and thoughts about this book, My memory of it is a bit dreamlike, which perhaps says a lot about the book itself: the series of haunting and vivid episodes are compelling but disjointed.
There are heartbreaking scenes from two achingly lonely childhoods Jean as a motherless girl caring for a paralyzed cat, Robert as a fatherless boy who compulsively tastes soil a chilling episode wherein an "ordinary" cow named "the folly cow" because "it is your own folly to keep wasting fodder on her" is publicly derided by a lecturer in favor of "superior" breeds eugenics briefly rears its head several times in the book, and each incident chillingly foreshadows Nazi ideology a sad scene wherein a woman finally learns the correct way to thread her sewing machine only as the machine is being sold at the auction that marks the end of her father's failed career as a farmer a description of a farmer who fancifully and inefficiently arranges his fields so that the different types of wheat form an image of Big Ben when seen from an airplane you can imagine Robert's reaction to this situation.
I could go on and on, and I find it amazing that aishpage book could contain so many oddly memorable characters and scenes.
I found the first half of the book more compelling than the second, The writing is quite lovely, but I felt as though there was something getting in the way of real emotional involvement with the protagonists.
In some ways the secondary characters seemed better rendered, There is something admittedly unsatisfying about this story, but it's so haunting and atmospheric and fascinating that I almost don't care, I have a feeling that I'll be wrapping my mind around this one for a long time,
It occurs to me that the book reminds me in some ways of C, E. Morgan's sitelinkAll the Living, which I also read this yearthe focus on agriculture, a new marriage, emotional distance, TBH, I'm not really sure I know what this book was about, Well written, easy to read but never really got anywhere and didn't weave in scientific living much at all, From Publishers Weekly:
“The dusty farms ofs Australia are the backdrop for this rich and knowing debut novel about science, love and the limits of progress.
The "BetterFarming Train," commissioned by the Agricultural Department of the Province of Victoria, travels throughout the country educating agricultural communities, Behind "fourteen cars of stock and science and produce" is the women's car, home to Sister Crock, stern infant welfare teacher Mary Maloney, cooking lecturer and Jean Cunningham, the curious, headstrong narrator and sewing instructor.
Jean avoids the men in the sitting car, where everyone gathers during long train rides, About love, she says: "I am not looking for it, " Nonetheless, love finds her in the form of Robert Pettergree, who has the unusual ability to identify the origin of any handful of soil by its taste.
Robert's belief in scientific progressexhibited in his eight maxims, the Rules for Scientific Livingis unshakable, Determined to prove his theories, Robert buys a farm for Jean and himself in the vast, impoverished wheat district called the Mallee, Despite drought, mice, economic depression and war, Jean and Robert struggle to fulfill the promises of science and love, ”
This is a slowpaced, rather sad story, and I didnt warm to the characters very much, In spite of that, I actually liked the book a lot and read it in just over a day, Its well written and the author successfully evokes another time and place, I felt I was in Australia, in the thirties, feeling Jeans disappointment each time the wheat crop was poor and the test loaves didnt turn out well.
Maybe I could relate to it because I have a science background and Im also from a major wheatgrowing area of the world, Ive often heard stories of crop failure on the Canadian prairies during the depression, The Better Farming Train, travelling to the isolated farming communities, seemed like the kind of thing the Canadian government might have undertaken, too, I loved the black and white photos which added to the realism of the story,
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Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment of an era,
Billowing dust and information, the government "Better Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing advice to the people living on the land.
The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts, from Sister Crock, the prim head of "women's subjects," to Mr, Ohno, the Japanese chicken specialist, to Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil,
Amid the swaying cars full of cows, pigs, and wheat, a strange and swift seduction occurs between Robert and Jean, In an atmosphere of heady scientific 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 relationships among man, science, and nature.
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living is a passionate and heartbreaking novel from an astonishing new writer,
Their attraction is immediate, inexplicable, and intense, in spite of Finnegan's mutual flirtation and fascination with Mr, Ohno, a Japanese chicken sexer,
Finnegan is quiet, "dark," and watchful: she listens to the conversations around her, embroidering them into a veil that
isn't even a veil, just a scrap of curtain.
. . At first I thought I would just fill in the holes, But it became something else, Forms took shape that I hadn't planned, lines and whirls darted through the netting leaving bright trails of color, . . It seems I have stitched the very shape of the conversation in the sitting car, The heat of it, the dips and lulls, the opinions and arguments, . .
Pettergree, a serious and dour redhead not an oxymoron, apparently, is fanatically invested in science and progress, He is the author of an earnest but absurdpoint "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living": ", . The only true foundation is a fact, . Avoid mawkish consideration of history and religion, . . "
Pettergree's commitment to "scientific living" is as devout as Finnegan's swift but fierce loyalty to him, Pity the woman who falls in love with a coldly rational man or, even worse, the man who aspires to be one! There is an early passage, from Finnegan's point of view, that beautifully sets the stage for their relationship:
I can tell that Mary doesn't wholly approve.
That she considers Robert odda boffin, a cold fish, He certainly hasn't used any of the standard techniques of wooing and seduction, We have barely touched at all since the honey car, When the train does throw us together, accidentally, he could steady me, but instead he reaches for the roof of the carriage and I'm left flailing, embarrassed by my outstretched arms.
The two marry and go off to some remote farm in Australia, Pettergree determined, via scientific methods, to wrest success from the unforgiving landscape.
Each year Jean, the "baking technician" of the outfit, faithfully rates, on a scale ofto, the crumb structure, crust color, and volume of loaves made from Robert's crops, measuring "the quality of wheats grown by Mr.
R. L. Pettergree of Wycheproof in regard to high yields of goodcolored flour with superior baking quality, " The charts, included in the narrative, show the devastating effects of drought, mouse plague, and wind stormsRobert's attendant disappointment and Jean's flagging spirits are implied.
In the end, science can account for neither the whims of nature nor the complexities of romantic attachment, Science never helps any of the characters, in fact: it only serves to justify or support ideas that seem patently cruel,
I'm at a loss when it comes to articulating my feelings and thoughts about this book, My memory of it is a bit dreamlike, which perhaps says a lot about the book itself: the series of haunting and vivid episodes are compelling but disjointed.
There are heartbreaking scenes from two achingly lonely childhoods Jean as a motherless girl caring for a paralyzed cat, Robert as a fatherless boy who compulsively tastes soil a chilling episode wherein an "ordinary" cow named "the folly cow" because "it is your own folly to keep wasting fodder on her" is publicly derided by a lecturer in favor of "superior" breeds eugenics briefly rears its head several times in the book, and each incident chillingly foreshadows Nazi ideology a sad scene wherein a woman finally learns the correct way to thread her sewing machine only as the machine is being sold at the auction that marks the end of her father's failed career as a farmer a description of a farmer who fancifully and inefficiently arranges his fields so that the different types of wheat form an image of Big Ben when seen from an airplane you can imagine Robert's reaction to this situation.
I could go on and on, and I find it amazing that aishpage book could contain so many oddly memorable characters and scenes.
I found the first half of the book more compelling than the second, The writing is quite lovely, but I felt as though there was something getting in the way of real emotional involvement with the protagonists.
In some ways the secondary characters seemed better rendered, There is something admittedly unsatisfying about this story, but it's so haunting and atmospheric and fascinating that I almost don't care, I have a feeling that I'll be wrapping my mind around this one for a long time,
It occurs to me that the book reminds me in some ways of C, E. Morgan's sitelinkAll the Living, which I also read this yearthe focus on agriculture, a new marriage, emotional distance, TBH, I'm not really sure I know what this book was about, Well written, easy to read but never really got anywhere and didn't weave in scientific living much at all, From Publishers Weekly:
“The dusty farms ofs Australia are the backdrop for this rich and knowing debut novel about science, love and the limits of progress.
The "BetterFarming Train," commissioned by the Agricultural Department of the Province of Victoria, travels throughout the country educating agricultural communities, Behind "fourteen cars of stock and science and produce" is the women's car, home to Sister Crock, stern infant welfare teacher Mary Maloney, cooking lecturer and Jean Cunningham, the curious, headstrong narrator and sewing instructor.
Jean avoids the men in the sitting car, where everyone gathers during long train rides, About love, she says: "I am not looking for it, " Nonetheless, love finds her in the form of Robert Pettergree, who has the unusual ability to identify the origin of any handful of soil by its taste.
Robert's belief in scientific progressexhibited in his eight maxims, the Rules for Scientific Livingis unshakable, Determined to prove his theories, Robert buys a farm for Jean and himself in the vast, impoverished wheat district called the Mallee, Despite drought, mice, economic depression and war, Jean and Robert struggle to fulfill the promises of science and love, ”
This is a slowpaced, rather sad story, and I didnt warm to the characters very much, In spite of that, I actually liked the book a lot and read it in just over a day, Its well written and the author successfully evokes another time and place, I felt I was in Australia, in the thirties, feeling Jeans disappointment each time the wheat crop was poor and the test loaves didnt turn out well.
Maybe I could relate to it because I have a science background and Im also from a major wheatgrowing area of the world, Ive often heard stories of crop failure on the Canadian prairies during the depression, The Better Farming Train, travelling to the isolated farming communities, seemed like the kind of thing the Canadian government might have undertaken, too, I loved the black and white photos which added to the realism of the story,
.