BooksBiography
Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
The best-selling biography of one of America's most admired painters Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
The only biography of this extraordinary and enigmatic American sculptor Essays
Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
A modern pastoral about transforming a bare backyard into a garden Nonfiction
Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
A book that offers people without children the life-affirming story of themselves Women's History
Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own
A vivid history of a wonderful school for teenage girls from all over the world |
Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening LifeFour Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life Random House, 2005 Reviews "An intimate immersion, with buoyant ups and downs, into life at an old house in northwestern Connecticut, not incidentally including its garden...An elegantly written yet also edgily realistic account of small-town, small-garden life."--Kirkus Reviews "As gardeners try to give shape to nature, Lisle's book does to a life, which is as challenging, complex and resistant to order as a garden. Her work will satisfy armchair gardeners as well as those already elbow-deep in dirt."--Publishers Weekly "Like many women before her, Laurie Lisle has embodied the life of her imagination in a garden. This book is an unexpectedly moving evocation of that life chronicled by a writer of grace and delicacy--and an enchanting portrait of one of New England's most glorious landscapes."--Honor Moore, poet and author of Red Shoes "In Laurie Lisle's delightful account of putting together a new life and a new garden in Northwest Connecticut, gardening becomes an engaging metaphor for the pleasures and hazards of everyday living."--Jane Garmey, editor of The Writer in the Garden "Laurie Lisle lovingly tells her story as a city person longing for the garden space of small town America. Digging into the roots of her family, her new home town and the earth itself, Lisle discovers how gardens develop and fit into a landscape and how she as a gardener develops into her own personal landscape."--Laurence Sombke, author of Beautiful Easy Flower Gardens "What a pleasure it is to follow Laurie Lisle's progress as she works to transform a bare, neglected plot of land into the garden of her imagination. As her perennials take root, grown, and blossom, so does the author, finding a secure place in a new home, a new town, and, many seasons later, a new marriage to a man who learns that you can't separate the gardener from the garden. Not even deer, who try their mightiest, can do that."--Le Anne Schreiber, author of Midstream and Light Years "There are many paths to garden-making.The warmest books are written by writers who let us know themselves as well as the gardens they create. Laurie Lisle has written such a book."--Frederick McGourty, author of The Perennial Gardener |
|
