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Life in the Garden de Penelope Lively

Life in the Garden

Autor Penelope Lively
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iun 2019
From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life

Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst and into her own backyard, traversing the lives of writers like Virginia Woolf and Philip Larkin while imparting her own sly and spare wisdom. "Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon.

Now in her eighty-fourth year, Lively muses, "To garden is to elide past, present, and future; it is a defiance of time."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780525558392
ISBN-10: 052555839X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Notă biografică

Penelope Lively is an award-winning novelist and author of children's literature. She received the Booker Prize for her novel Moon Tiger and wide acclaim for The Photograph and How It All Began. Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. In recognition of her contributions to British literature, she has been appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Recenzii

The perfect book for dedicated garden lovers
Exquisiteandoriginal
Agentle, scholarlyprogress throughthe lives and works of Penelope Lively's favoured authors- from Jane Austen to Beatrix Potter, Philip Larkin to Tom Stoppard
Enchanting.Reading this book is like walking with a wise, humorous guidethrough a series of garden rooms . . . and finding that vistas suddenly open out, on tohistory,fashion,politics,reflections on timeand thetaming of nature
Lively findsmemories of her own gardens scrambling like roses through insights into the history of gardening and the artists - including Woolf, Monet and PG Wodehouse - who have been inspired by their gardens
Delightful
Elegant,entertainingandinspirational
Ablossoming triumph

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'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth. Moves between Lively's own horticultural life and a broad history of gardening' Observer
'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review

'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping
'Exquisite and original' Daily Telegraph
'Enchanting. Reading this book is like walking with a wise, humorous guide through a series of garden rooms . . . and finding that vistas suddenly open out, on to history, fashion, politics, reflections on time and the taming of nature' Tablet
'A perfect bedside book. In part it's a memoir of the gardens in Lively's life, starting with the exotic Egyptian garden of her childhood and continuing up to her small present-day garden in a north London square' Sunday Express
'A gentle survey of the garden's place in Western culture, which morphs into a personal meditation on time, memory and a life well lived' i
'Scholarly bedtime reading' The Times, Books of the Year