| My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season Contributor(s): Klaus, Carl H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0877457077 ISBN-13: 9780877457077 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: My Vegetable Love offers a detailed daily record of gardening, loving, and living during a single growing season from the first outdoor planting in early spring to the final full harvest shortly after Thanksgiving. Yet Klaus describes far more than the toils and triumphs of tending vegetables, as his observations encompass the day-to-day changes in weather and wildlife as well as the life changes in his pets, his wife, and himself. As Patricia Hampl wrote, "Beneath the simplicity of this beguiling gardener's journal lies the captivating story of good life and true love. In the spirit of M. F. K. Fisher's writing about food and drink, Carl Klaus has found in his garden a model of the enduring passions of life and death". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Essays & Narratives - Gardening | Vegetables |
| Dewey: 635.092 |
| LCCN: 96017836 |
| Series: Bur Oak Original |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.81" W x 9.27" (1.00 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Iowa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: My Vegetable Love offers a detailed daily record of gardenng, loving, and living during a single growing season--from the first outdoor planting in early spring to the final fall harvest shortly after Thanksgiving. Yet Klaus describes far more than the toils and triumphs of tending vegetables, as his observations encompass the day-to-day changes in weather and wildlife as well as the life changes in his pets, his wife, and himself. As Patricia Hampl wrote, "Beneath the simplicity of this beguiling gardener's journal lies the captivating story of good life and true love. In the spirit of M. F. K. Fisher's writing about food and drink, Carl Klaus has found in his garden a model of the enduring passions of life and death." |