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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Laing, Olivia.     Subjects     Laing, Olivia -- Homes and haunts.     Authors, English -- 21st century.     Historic gardens -- Conservation and restoration -- England.     Gardens -- England -- Suffolk.     Historic gardens -- England.     English essays -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Laing, Olivia.       by title:      The garden against t...       by call number:      824.92 L269g     Search the Web     Laing, Olivia.     Laing, Olivia -- Homes and haunts.     Authors, English -- 21st century.     Historic gardens -- Conservation and restoration -- England.     Gardens -- England -- Suffolk.     Historic gardens -- England.     English essays -- 21st century.       MARC Display

The garden against time : in search of a common paradise / Olivia Laing. by Laing, Olivia. W. W. Norton & Company, [2024] Call #: 824.92 L269g Subjects Laing, Olivia -- Homes and haunts.   Authors, English -- 21st century.   Historic gardens -- Conservation and restoration -- England.   Gardens -- England -- Suffolk.   Historic gardens -- England.   English essays -- 21st century. ISBN:  9780393882001 (hc.) Description:  317 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Notes:  "First published in Great Britain in 2024 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--title page verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312). Summary:  "In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's 'Paradise Lost' to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth..."--From publisher. Genre:  Essays. Holds:  17   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 824.92 L269g Adult books In Processing Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 824.92 L269g Adult books In Processing Add Copy to MyList

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