Four Tenths of an Acre : : Reflections on a Gardening Life
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Women and Gardening
submitted by sdunav on August 26, 2011, 5:44pm
I was a little disappointed in this gardening memoir - it wasn't as humorous as Wm. Alexander (The $64 Tomato), nor as erudite as Michael Pollan or Charles Elliot. But it did have some good information on gardening in the northeast (the book is set in Sharon, CT), and a lot of history for someone interested in that neck of the woods. I also really enjoyed her ponderings about women and gardening and how this differs from men and their gardening pursuits.
Sometimes it got a little too self-involved for me....I could have done without hearing about her divorces and marital problems. It didn't seem to fit with the rest of the book, although I do understand she was trying to write about herself evolving as her garden did.
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 219 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1400061679 :
SUBJECTS
Lisle, Laurie.
Gardeners -- Sharon (Conn. : Town) -- Biography.
Journalists -- Sharon (Conn. : Town) -- Biography.
Gardening -- Sharon (Conn. : Town) -- Biography.