One good thing : a living memoir /
"'One Good Thing' is a delightful hybrid of creative non-fiction and memoir. Written in sixty-four epistolary sections, it represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing world. It is also a book of homage to gardening columnist extraordinaire Helen Chesnut of the V...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada :
Talonbooks,
[2021]
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| Summary: | "'One Good Thing' is a delightful hybrid of creative non-fiction and memoir. Written in sixty-four epistolary sections, it represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing world. It is also a book of homage to gardening columnist extraordinaire Helen Chesnut of the Victoria Times Colonist, as each section focusses and expands on a particular gardening column of hers. Using a familiar 'Dear Helen' structure, almost every piece in One Good Thing relates to the original gardening article that gave rise to it while, at times, ranging into a myriad of other topics, including the author's practice of creating art, personal and familial details, and comic riffs on a number of close-to-the-heart themes. The book focusses on finding personal 'calm abidance' through the practice of gardening as mediated by the universal and personal practice of writing."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 187 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781772012842 177201284X |