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Griefwork

James Hamilton-Paterson

4/5 ( ratings)

In a European city just after World War II, the odd curator of a greenhouse garden welcomes guests to savor his tropical plants, which open only at night. In his care, the exotic species have survived the war, and now he struggles to keep the greenhouse's boilers going in the fuel-starved privation of postwar Europe. Threats to their survival abound: the tempting offers of a foreign princess, his employers' plans to sell the botanical garden, and his own failing body and mind - which is racked by fantasies in which the plants talk to him. Griefwork is a fictional evocation of a lost world and of lost love, and a fable about the ways we impose order on the world so as to forestall such losses.

Language: English

Pages: 250

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: September 01, 1995

ISBN: 0374166994

ISBN 13: 9780374166991

Griefwork

James Hamilton-Paterson

4/5 ( ratings)

In a European city just after World War II, the odd curator of a greenhouse garden welcomes guests to savor his tropical plants, which open only at night. In his care, the exotic species have survived the war, and now he struggles to keep the greenhouse's boilers going in the fuel-starved privation of postwar Europe. Threats to their survival abound: the tempting offers of a foreign princess, his employers' plans to sell the botanical garden, and his own failing body and mind - which is racked by fantasies in which the plants talk to him. Griefwork is a fictional evocation of a lost world and of lost love, and a fable about the ways we impose order on the world so as to forestall such losses.

Language: English

Pages: 250

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: September 01, 1995

ISBN: 0374166994

ISBN 13: 9780374166991

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