My Garden (Book) - Softcover

Kincaid, Jamaica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374527768 ISBN 13: 9780374527761

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

Synopsis

One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.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.

About this title

Review:

". . .[She] is able to do something that is almost never done in garden writing, and do it very well . . ." --Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St John's, Antigua. Her highly praised books include the novels MY BROTHER and ANNIE JOHN, a story collection AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER and A SMALL PLACE, an essay about the island of Antigua. She lives with her family in Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374527768
• ISBN 13: 9780374527761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240