The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
- The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
- Olivia Laing
- Page: 336
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780393882018
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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An Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation • Named one of the most anticipated books of 2024 by the BBC, The Observer, Irish Times, The Guardian, and The Millions. Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise. In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there’s still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from 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 doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated 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 climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review
May 2, 2024 —
The Garden Against Time
The Garden Against TimeIn Search of a Common Paradise ; Gardening / Essays & Narratives ; Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs ; Literary Criticism / Subjects &
The Garden Against Time: Olivia Laing
Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common
A cumulative intellectual with a golden pen, Laing… connects collectivity with dirt, hand-building both private and generous new worlds as safe refuge and risky
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
May 2, 2024 —
The Garden Against Time - Olivia Laing
Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
May 2, 2024 —
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common
Beautifully written, personal experiences and own past cleverly interwoven with history and stories of gardeners in their own times. An inspiring book which now
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
What a wonderful book this is. · A sharp and enthralling memoir of the garden's contradiction: dream and reality, life and death, the fascination of cultivation
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common
Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque
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