Radical Prunings: A Novel: A Novel of Officious Advice from the Contessa of Compost - Softcover

Abbott, Bonnie Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578602033 ISBN 13: 9781578602032

Publisher: Clerisy Press, Emmis Books, 2005

Synopsis

This rather deceptive work purports to be the collected horticultural columns of one opinionated Mertensia Corydalis. As Mertensia answers her readers’ innocent gardening questions, she reveals more than she intends about her life, her relationships (from her prissy ex-husband to questionable interactions with her employees, Miss Vong and Tran), and her state of mind.

Radical Prunings is a literate, funny, and surprisingly bittersweet fiction debut from a writer with a sharp wit and a very green thumb.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In Radical Prunings, Bonnie Thomas Abbott does for gardening what The Debt to Pleasure did for cooking. Dig down deep with one of the most appealing narrators to emerge in recent years—a woman wise about all things horticultural but not nearly as certain when the human heart is involved.

About the Author:

Bonnie Thomas Abbott grew up on an organic hobby farm where heated dinner table discussions involved points of grammar and English usage. Genetically inclined to the pursuit of growing things, it was inevitable that this, her first novel, would dispense gardening tips along with gossipy updates on the household of horticulturist Miss Mertensia Corydalis. Her work appears in Mirth of a Nation and 101 Damnations and has also appeared in Seattle Weekly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clerisy Press, Emmis Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1578602033
• ISBN 13: 9781578602032
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 235