Cranberry Red (signed)

Apps, Jerry

ISBN 10: 0299247708 / ISBN 13: 9780299247706

Published by Terrace Books, 2010

About this Item

Yellow cloth, 312 pp, 9-in tall. Fourth novel in Apps's Ames County series. Dust jacket shows just a trifle of surface rubbing, else fine. Author's personalized inscription on title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 005280

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cranberry Red (signed)
• Publisher: Terrace Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299247708
• ISBN 13: 9780299247706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: first printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The fourth novel in Jerry Apps’s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century.    
    As the novel opens, Ben Wesley has lost his job as agricultural agent for Ames County. He is soon hired as a research application specialist for Osborne University, a for-profit institution that has developed “Cranberry Red,” a new chemical that promises not only to improve cranberry crop yields but also to endow the fruits with the power to prevent heart disease, reduce brain damage from strokes, and ward off Alzheimer’s disease. Ben must promote the new product to cranberry growers in Ames County and beyond, but he worries whether the promised results are credible. Was Cranberry Red rushed to market?
    When the chemical does all that the university claims it will do, Ben is relieved . . . until disturbing side effects emerge. Can he criticize Cranberry Red and safeguard farmers and consumers without losing his job, or will Ben’s honesty get him fired while his community continues to get sicker?

Finalist, General Fiction, Midwest Book Awards

About the Author

Jerry Apps, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His other Ames County novels are The Travels of Increase Joseph, In a Pickle, and Blue Shadows Farm. His many nonfiction books include Every Farm Tells a Story, Old Farm, Cheese, Breweries of Wisconsin, One-Room Country Schools, and Ringlingville USA. He has received the Major Achievement Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the Notable Author Award from the Wisconsin Library Association.