{"product_id":"the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-by-olivia-laing","title":"The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing (Preloved-Like New)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is in preloved condition, which means someone else enjoyed it before you. Because it's in Like New condition, you probably won't even notice anything different other than a great discounted price!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA #1 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003eAn Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the restoration of her own garden, \"imaginative and empathetic critic\" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heather \u0026 Pine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46320107061420,"sku":"9780393882001","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/1683\/0124\/files\/9780393882001.jpg?v=1780068464","url":"https:\/\/heatherandpinebooks.com\/products\/the-garden-against-time-in-search-of-a-common-paradise-by-olivia-laing","provider":"Heather \u0026 Pine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}