false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172848944m/222539.jpg 222539 1 Twice a year America's rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the highest honor: the Queen of Show. Doctors. Teachers. Sheet metal mechanics. Lawyers. Truck drivers. Men and women. These are type A gardeners, and for them this is a blood sport. They grow tender roses in the frigid North and disease prone roses in the humid South simply for the challenge. They decorate otherwise lovely yards with paper bags and panty hose to isolate their choice specimens. They traipse through overgrown fields in the worst weather to save antique roses from extinction.<br> <br> Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds, Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious charges. With all the appeal of <i>Word Freak</i>, <i>Otherwise Normal People</i> celebrates the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty&#8212;and, of course, the thrill of victory. 215518 18 5 2007 Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening total:16|5:0|4:5|3:4|2:5|1:2| 16 44 29 8 4 6 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 11:06:38 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 11:07:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 08:47:52 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 09:15:32 -0700 2008
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