The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Short Fiction about Gardens and Gardeners - Hardcover

Slung, Michele (editor)

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ISBN 10: 0715632639 ISBN 13: 9780715632635

Publisher: Overlook Duckworth, 2005

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Michele Slung is an editor and reviewer whose books include Momilies: As My Mother Used to Say and More Momilies, as well as the anthologies Crime on Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties; Murder & Other Acts of Literature; Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters; Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures, and Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica. She divides her time between New York City and Ulster County, New York.

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Where else but in a garden could one find a tender rose flourishing next to a tough cactus, a rustic arbor framing a delicate vine? Slung acknowledges such satisfying serendipity in her equally enchanting anthology of garden-related short fiction, a lush compilation of stories that celebrates the garden's role in inspiring love, fueling desire, soothing pain, assuaging grief. Few collections could support both a Garrison Keillor and a Stephen King, but Slung arranges her entries as carefully as the most discerning landscape designer. "The Flower Garden," David Guterson's sensitive tribute to lost love, is artfully balanced by "See No Weevil," James Thurber's whimsical reflection on botanical nomenclature. Lisa St. Aubin de Teran conjures a unique form of pest control, while the inimitable Saki amuses with his inspired answer to every gardener's prayers. From the perfection of J. G. Ballard's "The Garden of Time" to the poignance of Anne Rosner's "Prize Tomatoes," Slung winsomely celebrates the creative muses of gardeners and writers alike. Carol Haggas
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About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Duckworth
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0715632639
• ISBN 13: 9780715632635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1