Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill

图书信息

作者	Adam Nicolson
出版社	HarperPress
ISBN	9780007335589
出版时间	2011-03-31
字数	45.8万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven. Without knowing one end of a hay baler from the other, Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven, fed up with London and with life, escaped with his family to a run-down farm in the Sussex Weald. Looking for Arcadia, they found a mixture of intense beauty and profound chaos. Over three years they struggled with dock leaves, spring flowers, bloody-minded sheep and neighbours before eventually arriving at some kind of equilibrium. Funny, poetic, ironic and wise, ‘The Smell of Summer Grass’ is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It traces the growing intimacy between man and his chosen place, his love affair with it and his frustrations with its intractable realities. As an attempt to live out the pastoral vision, it makes one heartfelt plea: we should never abandon our dreams.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

Part One: BREAKING

The Bright Field

Green Fading into Blue

Part Two: MENDING

The Darting of Life

Patrolling the Boundaries

Neighbours with the Dead

Part Three: SETTLING

Spring Births, Felled Oaks

In Deepest Arcadia

Peaches on the Cow-Shed Wall

A World in Transition

Part Four: GROWING

Divorcing from the Past

The Very Opposite of Poisonous

Transformations

A Thick Pelt of Green

Feeding the Sensuous Memory

Picture Section

About the Author

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