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Release Year: 2021

ISBN: 9780593083369

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Penguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10

0593083369

ISBN-13

9780593083369

eBay Product ID (ePID)

18050078236

Product Key Features

Book Title

Orwell's Roses

Number of Pages

320 Pages

Language

English

Publication Year

2021

Topic

Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Literary

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Literary Criticism, Nature, Biography & Autobiography

Author

Rebecca Solnit

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

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1 in

Item Weight

14.8 Oz

Item Length

8.5 in

Item Width

5.7 in

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LCCN

2021-003710

Reviews

Advance praise for Orwell's Roses : "[Solnit] has a knack for making surprising and poignant connections between seemingly disparate things . . . [ Orwell's Roses is] another expansive look at politics, power, beauty, and the stories we tell ourselves." -- LitHub "Elegant . . . muses on Orwell with all Rebecca Solnit's luminous intelligence and trademark optimism. If 'Orwellian' has become synonymous with darkness and oppression, she opens up his life affirming love of gardening, of wild nature and life's physical pleasure, his antidote to the grim puritanism of ideologues" --Polly Toynbee, The Guardian "There is nothing more political than a garden, and Rebecca Solnit brings Orwell's life and writing vividly alive through his quiet determination to love the surface of the earth. Orwell's Roses shows how intimately aesthetics is intertwined with ethics, and in doing so, Solnit has given us a truly beautiful book." --Alex Christofi, author of Dostoevsky in Love "We all know what Orwell hated, but Solnit pays attention to what he loved. Orwell's Roses is an ingeniously fresh and unpredictable take on his life and times, and the values he held dear." --Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 "This book unfolds like the petals of a rose--the political rose, the personal rose--and enacts its subject in the ethics of its beauty and the grace of its resistance." --Jay Griffiths, author of Why Rebel "This book is brilliant because it is true, and because it rescues Orwell from a kind of dourness and seriousness, and gives him back his humanity and yes, his Englishness." --James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life and English Pastoral "This is an enchanting book, as powerful in its arguments as it is enjoyable to read. From a surprising close-up of George Orwell planting three Woolworth roses, Solnit pans to a bracing new vista of the man and his fierce political aesthetic, taking in the injustices of the rose industry and lying Soviet science as she goes. Brilliant." --Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad, and Sad

Dewey Edition

Dewey Decimal

823.912

Synopsis

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker." --Claire Messud, Harper's "Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way." -- Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world "In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses." So be-gins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit's account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell's life journeys through his writing and his actions--from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit's celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell's own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti's roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell's slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid's examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit's portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.

LC Classification Number

PR6029.R8Z7895 2021

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