Into the Garden with Charles: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374175713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wachsberger has a wide-eyed, boyish gratitude--how could this life have possibly come to him? He does not seem to realize that he created it.” Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Review of Books“Destined to become a classic, Into the Garden with Charles by Clyde Philip Wachsberger is a jewel of a memoir. It makes a reader long for the book, for the world of the book--the long winter evenings, the summer days with visitors and friends. The two men blossom in each other's company, reviving that ancient (but fore
His published books include Daffodil, Rose, and Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners, which he coedited with his partner, Charles Dean, and for which his illustrations won a Garden Writers Association Gold Award for best book illustration. Clyde Phillip Wachsberger was an artist, gardener, and writer who lived in Orient on Long Island's North Fork. He died in November 2011.
A Gardener's life and pleasures Aldus Lovely and charming memoir that will engage all avid gardeners.. "Finally, a literary memoir for garden lovers!" according to Debra Prinzing. From the opening pages when he wonders if it is all a dream - his beloved but antiquated home and garden, his always-cheerful dog Rover, and his charming, Southern-born partner Charles - Clyde "Skip" Wachsberger draws the reader into his magical world in which the impossible is always possible, if you only believe."Into the Garden with Charles" is the intimate story of one man's wonderful life filled with a love for opera, art, plants and friends. That he yearned for a companion with whom to share all of. kay said Knowledgable, heartfelt, beautiful.. This is my favorite book. It's a heartfelt look into the life of the author and his knowledge of plants is astonishing. I love love love this book.
As a boy in suburban New York in 1940s, Clyde Wachsberger daydreams about storybook gardens where magic happens under the huge leaves. Then remarkable circumstances lead him to Charlesa connoisseur of art, a gardener, and the man who will become his life-partner. Through the 1960s and 1970s, when most gay men disdained monogamy, the authoran artist and set-designer in New York Citysearches unsuccessfully for a soul mate. In 1983, approaching middle-age and having given up on finding love, he moves to a three-hundred-year-old house on a third of an acre, where he channels his passion into creating a garden appropriate to his historical home. Enriched with the author's paintingsgiving it the look and feel of an antique children's bookInto the Garden with Charles is a unique and moving memoir about growing old and falling in love.. Together they create a garden of sensuous wild beauty.Into the Garden with Charles is infused with the author's artistic sensibility and is written in a voice that is unaffected, generous, and straightforward. Set in the tiny village of Orient, Long Island, and in New York City, Into the Garden with Charles is a memoir about falling in love