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BOOK
Title My garden (book) / Jamaica Kincaid ; illustrations by Jill Fox
Imprint New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001
©1999

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 Kirseberg:Vuxen Facklitteratur (630-649)  635 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition 1st pbk. ed
Descript 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them
Subject Kincaid, Jamaica, 1949-
Trädgårdar
Trädgårdsskötsel
Trädgårdsodling
Gardens -- Anecdotes
Gardening -- Anecdotes
Gardeners -- Anecdotes
Classmark 635
Qe
Alt Auth Fox, Jill.
ISBN/ISSN 0374527768 (pbk.)
9780374527761 (pbk.)
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