Into the Garden with Charles A Memoir

Name: Into the Garden with Charles A Memoir
Price: 10.95 USD
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ISBN: 9780374175719

ISBN-10: 0374175713

ISBN-13: 9780374175719

Edition: 2012

Authors: Clyde Phillip Wachsberger

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Set in the tiny village of Orient, Long Island, and in New York City,Into the Garden with Charlesis a memoir about falling in love. As a boy in suburban New York in 1940s, Clyde Wachsberger daydreams about storybook gardens where magic happens under the huge leaves. Through the 1960s and 1970s, when most gay men disdained monogamy, the author—an artist and set-designer in New York City—searches unsuccessfully for a soul mate. In 1983, approaching middle-age and having given up on finding love, he moves to a three-hundred-year-old house on a third of an acre, where he channels his passion into creating a garden appropriate to his historical home. Then remarkable circumstances lead him to…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.67" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Clyde Phillip Wachsbergeris an artist, gardener, and writer living in Orient on Long Island’s North Fork. His published books includeDaffodil, Rose, Of Leaf and Flower and Stories and Poems for Gardeners, which he co-edited with his partner, Charles Dean, and for which his illustrations won the Garden Writers Association award for best book illustration.



List of Illustrations


The Privet Hedg


A House on Village Lane


A Garden Behind a Hedge


Under a Papier machï¿½ Banana Tree


Roses in the Snow


Mr. Soito's Peonies


A Stolen Coleus


Passionflowers and Bindweed


Hummingbirds


Frances and Victor


Love in the Mist


A Cucumber Magnolia and a Pink Horse Chestnut


Asters and Goldenrod


The Screened Porch


Acknowledgments