Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a square ploy in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experinces gardener friends, she planted all the flowers she liked best. in MY GARDEN BOOK, she gathers all she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination.The sources of her inspiration - seed catalogues, legendary gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Stuart Thomas, famous gardens like Monet's at Giverny and Vita Sackville ...
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Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a square ploy in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experinces gardener friends, she planted all the flowers she liked best. in MY GARDEN BOOK, she gathers all she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination.The sources of her inspiration - seed catalogues, legendary gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Stuart Thomas, famous gardens like Monet's at Giverny and Vita Sackville West's at Sissinghurst - receive keen scrutiny.She also examnes the idea of the garden on Antigua, and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonised countries; as well as visiting historic English gardens in England.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Fine. No Jacket. An advance reading excerpt, published as a limited edition chapbook (limitation not stated), bound back-to-back with an Ian Frazier excerpt from On the Rez. Fine in stapled wrappers. Kincaid is the editor of the anthology My Favorite Plant, in addition to being a writer of fiction and memoir. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
