In a Pickle
A Family Farm Story
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Published:30th May '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The year is 1955. The H. H. Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in the small town of Link Lake, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlow way or lose their biggest customer - and, possibly, their land. Andy Meyer, the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the Harlow Company, a conflict that places him between the family farm and the big corporation. As he sees how Harlow begins to change the rural community and the lives of its people, Andy must make personal, ethical, and life-changing decisions.
Apps draws from his own rural upbringing to paint a touching picture of farm life and pickle-making in the sands of Central Wisconsin. - Wisconsin Natural Resources ""Charming.... Apps, who was born on a farm and who managed a pickle factory in the 1950s, invests the novel with the kind of realism, precise detail, and local color that only someone who had lived the story could do."" - Booklist
ISBN: 9780299223045
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 351g
256 pages