In an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them, Kinkaid examines the idea of the garden on Antigua and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries. Illustrations.
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In an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the gardeners who tend them, Kinkaid examines the idea of the garden on Antigua and considers the implications of the English formal garden in colonized countries. Illustrations.
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Fair. May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
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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 rhododendron 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.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 5x0x9; Signed by Kincaid at the title page. Heathered pale green boards with darker green spine titling, and a fore-edge decoration to front panel of a darker green margin and white leaf pattern at the boarder. Boards very good with light edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good+ or very good-with light staining and edgewear. Light page-turning stain to FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Illustrated by Jill Fox. 229pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, near in a near fine dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine and modest edgewear.
