Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
βAn exhilarating romp through Orwellβs life and times and also through the life and times of roses.β βMargaret Atwood
βA captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.β βClaire Messud, Harper's
βNobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.β βVogue
A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world
βIn the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.β So be-gins Rebecca Solnitβs new book, a reflection on George Orwellβs passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power.
Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnitβs account of this overlooked aspect of Orwellβs life journeys through his writing and his actionsβfrom going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.
Through Solnitβs celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwellβs own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modottiβs roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwellβs slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaidβs examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnitβs portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
βAn exhilarating romp through Orwellβs life and times and also through the life and times of roses.β βMargaret Atwood
βA captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.β βClaire Messud, Harper's
βNobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.β βVogue
A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world
βIn the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.β So be-gins Rebecca Solnitβs new book, a reflection on George Orwellβs passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power.
Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnitβs account of this overlooked aspect of Orwellβs life journeys through his writing and his actionsβfrom going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.
Through Solnitβs celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwellβs own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modottiβs roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwellβs slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaidβs examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnitβs portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell, River of Shadows, and Wanderlust. She is also the author of Men Explain Things to Me and many essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope, and the climate crisis. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications.
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