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Life in the Garden - Couverture souple

Lively, Penelope

 
9780241982181: Life in the Garden
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0241982189 ISBN 13 : 9780241982181
Editeur : Penguin, 2018

Synopsis

'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review

'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping

'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth' Observer

'The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening.'

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.

'Exquisite and original' Daily Telegraph

'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

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À propos de l'auteur

Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt and spent her childhood there. She came to England at the age of twelve, in 1945, and went to boarding school in Sussex. She went on to read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1957 she married Jack Lively (who died in 1998). They had two children, Josephine and Adam. Jack Lively's academic career took the family from Swansea to Sussex and Oxford, and eventually to Warwick University, where he was Professor of Politics. Penelope Lively now has six grandchildren and lives in London.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241982189
ISBN 13 
9780241982181
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
The Random House Group Limited
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Personne responsable
The Random House Group Limited
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One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens
London
SW11 7BW
Royaume-Uni