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Some varieties, like the Winesap and the Maiden Blush, are antique apples with long histories. Others have become popular in recent years, like the pinkish-orange Gala, which was created by horticulturists in New Zealand who blended Golden Delicious with Kidd's Orange Red, an apple that itself is a hybrid of the British Cox's Orange Pippin and a Red Delicious. Japanese breeders crossed a Red Delicious with an heirloom variety called Ralls Janet to create the superlarge, supersweet Fuji, which ranks fifth in sales among varieties grown...
...novel was ever harmed by an irresistible beginning. Freddy's Book, Author John Gardner's eighth novel, is a case in point. While riding the lecture circuit in the Midwest, Professor Jack Winesap meets a strange old historian with a stranger pronouncement: "I have a son who's a monster." Winesap accepts an invitation to the man's house, arrives at an isolated and crumbling old estate during a blizzard, and is promptly snowed in for the night. After some suspenseful dawdling, the host allows his guest to visit Freddy, a young man who stands some...
...that is the end of the irresistible beginning. Freddy's mission is not to tear Winesap limb from limb or to discuss how it feels to be taken for a monster. Rather, he drops a bulky manuscript of his own composition inside the room and stomps off. The rest of Freddy 's Book is just that: Freddy's book. Gardner has used the device of a novel within a novel before, most successfully in his widely praised October Light (1976), but this time he refuses to provide the other half of the framing tale: Winesap, Freddy...
...Songs of winesap apple...
...Maupassant's fiction has been likened to that of "a peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple." It is Cheever's peculiar distinction to make his readers relish the Winesap flesh at the same time as he etymologizes on the worm: the importance of his fiction comes from the urgency of his moral insights. This puts his work in a different order of art from that of John O'Hara, a man of greater technical skill with a harder eye for the surface detail of current U.S. life, but one who is limited...