Life in the garden / Penelope Lively.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lively, Penelope, 1933- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lively, Penelope, 1933-.

Lively, Penelope.

Lively, Penelope, 1933---Knowledge and learning--Gardening.

Gardening.

Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Gardens in literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Viking, [2017].

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction

Reality and Metaphor

The Written Garden

The Fashionable Garden

Time, Order and the Garden

Style and the Garden

Town and Country.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lively, Penelope, 1933- Life in the garden.

ISBN:

9780525558378

0525558373

OCLC:

1006810108