Olivia Laing

The Garden Against Time (eBook, ePUB)

The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Garden Against Time is the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from acclaimed writer Olivia Laing; a passionate, epic exploration of the power and possibilities of gardens.

'What a wonderful book this is' - Nigel Slater
'A book for thinking gardeners everywhere' - Mary Keen

When Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens.

Moving between the real and the imagined, from Milton's Paradise Lost to a wartime sanctuary in Italy, to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

But the story of the garden can also be a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams, from the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the vision of a common Eden cultivated by William Morris. New modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of radical change.

'This book is what we need right now: paradise, regained' - Philip Hoare
'Every generation gets one perfect book about gardens and this is ours' - Julia Bell
'Prepare yourself to be enchanted' - Jilly Cooper
'The most magical writing' - Jeremy Lee
'I felt doubly alive after reading it' - Celia Paul
'Quite literally unputdownable' - Jinny Blom

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529066685
• Artikelnr.: 68545181

Autorenporträt

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. They are the author of several books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and Funny Weather. Their first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the James Tait Memorial Prize. They they were awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. The Garden Against Time was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller.

Rezensionen

This isn't a historical survey of gardening, much less a practical guide, so much as an inquiry into the idea of the garden - its history and poetics, its relationship to sex, imagination and power. Laing belongs in an as-yet-undefined and perhaps undefinable class of prose artists who blend feeling and analysis, speculation and research, wit and instruction as they track down the elusive patterns and inescapable contradictions of modern experience New York Times