Orwell's Roses (Paperback)

Rebecca Solnit

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Penguin Putnam Inc, 2022

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Paperback. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyAn exhilarating romp through Orwells 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'sNobody 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 Solnits new book, a reflection on George Orwells 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, Solnits account of this overlooked aspect of Orwells life journeys through his writing and his actionsfrom 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 Solnits celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwells own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modottis roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwells slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaids 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 Solnits portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Orwell's Roses (Paperback)
Autore
Rebecca Solnit
Editore
Penguin Putnam Inc
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0593083377
ISBN 13
9780593083376

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