“ dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories. “An absorbing portrait of a town, told through its unforgettable people.masterful.”- People, four stars "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions.įrom the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.Īt the center of everyone’s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.īeautifully crafted, shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving. The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives.
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I still remember my very first report card had these words written on it, “Extremely shy. I have struggled with shyness and social anxiety since childhood. My reason for ordering Miss Nobody was the blurb. If you live in Pakistan, you can get both these books from the Liberty Books Pakistan on the links given below: All I have to do in return is to do a book review on my blog so Being Miss Nobody by Tamsin Winter and After The Fire by Will Hill were my first orders from Usborne. Being an official blogger for Usborne means that I can order a copy of any to be published book a few months before its release (yes they email me a list of their upcoming books every month) and that too for free (yayyy!). Perhaps one of the best highlights of my blogging journey is being selected as an official blogger for Usborne books UK. Scott Fitzgerald created a stir with his second novel, The Beautiful And The Damned, where he painted the portrait of a marriage gone horribly wrong.Ī century later, as tributes to Ulysses and Kerouac (almost always to On The Road, his youthful novel of travel and self-discovery) continue to pour in, the rest of the landmarks seem to have been erased. And as Joyce began to grapple with the raging controversy generated by his magnum opus, Jack Kerouac, the future star among the Beat writers, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, across the Atlantic. Like Joyce, Virginia Woolf pushed the boundaries of narrative by bringing the “stream of consciousness” style into her novel, Jacob’s Room. Eliot published The Waste Land, which changed the landscape of Anglo-American poetry forever. It became the shining centre of a constellation that would glow ever brighter as the year wore on. In February that year, on 2.2.22 to be precise, Irish writer James Joyce’s iconic novel Ulysses was published by Shakespeare and Company, the famous Parisian book store owned by Sylvia Beach. In 1922, as Europe and America were picking themselves up from the rubble of the Great War, the literary muses decided to bestow their bounty on a generation of readers living during the high noon of modernism. |