Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Title: Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Author: Olivia Laing ISBN: 9780393882001 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Gardening 1617949 Publisher Description: 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. But the story of the garden doesn't always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusi