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My Garden (Book): (Record no. 2122)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	2122
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number	99-26204
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780374281861
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency	--
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number	SB455.K48 1999
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	635--
Item number	dc21
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	My Garden (Book):
Statement of responsibility, etc.	/ Jamaica Kincaid
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	NY;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Farrar Straus & Giroux;
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	1999
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	230p;
Dimensions	24x16cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	The author offers a literary celebration of the art of gardening, discussing her favorite plants, her horticultural sources of inspiration, and famous gardens around the world. "I wanted a garden that looked like something I had in my mind's eye, but exactly what that might be I did not know and even now do not know." Celebrated novelist Kincaid (The Autobiography of My Mother) should delight fans of her fiction and connoisseurs of the literature of horticulture with this personable and brightly descriptive, if somewhat rambling, book-length essay, most of it about her own garden in Vermont. Kincaid (who last year edited the anthology My Favorite Plant) shuttles constantly and with ease between the practical, technical difficulties of gardening and the larger meanings it makes available. She asks herself why her new weeping wisterias won't look right on her stone terrace; why her Carpinus betulus Pendula looks so lonely amid poppies and "late-blooming monkshood"; what's wrong with roses, and what's good about Blue Lake green beans; and how to stack up stones. But she also coaxes from her plot of earth more philosophical and psychological questions--inquiries about geography, heritage, marriage, motherhood, power; "how to make a house a home"; whether and for whom "to name is to possess." Kincaid's Antiguan upbringing recurs as a point of comparison, a source of political insights and a focus of nostalgia: "it dawned on me that the garden I was making... resembled a map of the Caribbean and the sea that surrounds it." A botany-centered trip to Kunming, China, gives the last chapter a welcome change of scene. Kincaid, her publisher and their designers have made of her meditations a remarkably attractive physical object, suffused outside and in by shades of green and decorated throughout with illustrations by Jill Fox. (Dec.)
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note	English
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	SB450.9-467.8 Gardens and gardening
9 (RLIN)	5624
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Koha item type	Book
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Library of Congress Classification

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		Library of Congress Classification			Agriculture. Animal Culture. Aqua culture.	SAF Reference Library	SAF Reference Library	10/23/1	SB15- Annalee Davis Reading Room		SB450.9-467.8 112.36	2122	01/12/2023	01/12/2023	Book