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The garden against time : in search of a common paradise / Olivia Laing.
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 it's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393882001 :
- Physical Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A door in the wall -- Paradise -- A landscape without people -- A Sovran planter -- Garden state -- Benton Apollo -- The world my wilderness -- The expelling angel. |
| Citation/References Note: | Junior Library Guild |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 16 & Up. Grades 11 & Up. |
| Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
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| Subject: | Gardens > Conservation and restoration > England. Gardens > Philosophy. Historic gardens > England. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Upper Skagit Library | 635.097 LAI | 1018723 | New Nonfiction | Available | - |