Life in the garden / Penelope Lively.
| Author/creator |
Lively, Penelope, 1933- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York, New York : Viking, [2017] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2017 |
| Description | 198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Reality and metaphor -- The written garden -- The fashionablegarden -- Time, order and the garden -- Style and the garden -- Town and country. |
| Abstract | "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." "-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "First published in Great Britain by Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK." |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lively, Penelope, 1933- Life in the garden. [New York City] : Viking, 2018 9780525558385 |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2018013220 |
| ISBN | 9780525558378 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0525558373 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR6062 .I89 Z46 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |