The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography) - Hardcover

Roach, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410457931 ISBN 13: 9781410457936

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2013

Synopsis

An author, editor, blogger and experienced, self-taught gardener reflects upon the life-affirming effects that gardening has had on her life, offers meditations on the spirituality of the natural world and encourages everyone to get outside and start digging. (biography & autobiography).

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Roach is the author of the memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There. She has been an editor at the New York Times, fashion editor and garden editor at Newsday, the first garden editor for Martha Stewart Living magazine, and the editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Margaret is now a consultant and avid gardener, keeping fans up to date on her website A Way to Garden, which Anne Raver of the New York Times called "the best garden blog" she'd seen. Margaret is also the author of A Way to Garden, named Best Garden Book of the Year by the Garden Writers' Association of America.

Review

"As a passionate, hopeful and often self-delusional gardener (the only kind of gardener there is!), I loved this book. Margaret Roach writes with intelligence, compassion, and-most of all-sanity. Her work is a blessing."―Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

"As I read this witty, revealing, sometimes poetic confessional I felt I understood for the first time what a garden could be-a work of art, a source of pleasure and solace, an object of beauty, a provider of nourishment. And why Margaret calls the plot she tends 'my monster.' This is the story of a real relationship: Margaret and her garden, a love story."―Anna Thomas, author of The Vegetarian Epicure and Love Soup

"In matters of both earth and heart, Margaret Roach is fearless. She digs deep. What she finds, and what she offers in this lyrical memoir of a gardening year, is hard-won wisdom laced with humor, hands-on how-to delivered with a poet's touch, experience embraced with fervor, humility, and grace."―Katrina Kenison, author of Magical Journey and The Gift of an Ordinary Day

"On her knees in the garden, Margaret cultivates an intimate relationship with the Beloved, finding what the body, heart and soul may most desire. As Rumi says: "Why should we not play like that sometimes, having fun, exploring some nooks...in our own backyard."―Daniel Ladinsky, bestselling Penguin poet-translator of Hafiz and Rumi

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1410457931
• ISBN 13: 9781410457936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 377