ARGONAUT BOOKS

From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise. Reviews This isn't a historical survey of gardening, much less a practical guide, so much as an inquiry into the idea of the garden - its history and poetics, its relationship to sex, imagination and power. Laing belongs in an as-yet-undefined and perhaps undefinable class of prose artists who blend feeling and analysis, speculation and research, wit and instruction as they track down the elusive pattern...Read More