{"product_id":"the-garden-against-time","title":"Garden Against Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is 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\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way.' – Nigel Slater\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, 336 pages by Olivia Laing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e14.5 x 22.5 x 3cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Bookspeed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45446470762755,"sku":"D3969","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/tkdcincinnati.com\/s\/files\/1\/2219\/2155\/files\/The-Garden-Against-Time.jpg?v=1717691343","url":"https:\/\/tkdcincinnati.com\/en-us\/products\/the-garden-against-time","provider":"tkdcincinnati","version":"1.0","type":"link"}