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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 the Perfect Garden
By William Alexander
304 pages
Paperback   (also available in Hardback)
ISBN: 1565125576
ISBN13: 9781565125575
$13.95(US)

 

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Reviews
"A wry memoir in which every reader who's spent way more to grow a plant than he could purchase it for at the supermarket will recognize his own successes, failures and foibles."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Money, sex, aging. That's real gardening!"—New York Observer

Both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever looked at a tomato and thought, I could grow that!”—Life magazine

"Engaging, funny, and down-to-earth."—Entertainment Weekly

"Gardening as extreme sport. . . . Engaging, well paced and informative."—The New York Times Book Review