{"id":122666,"date":"2021-10-19T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/orwells-roses-by-rebecca-solnit-review-deadheading-with-george-orwell\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T07:05:08","slug":"orwells-roses-by-rebecca-solnit-review-deadheading-with-george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/orwells-roses-by-rebecca-solnit-review-deadheading-with-george-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell\u2019s Roses by Rebecca Solnit review \u2013 deadheading with George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInspired by George Orwell\u2019s love of gardening, Solnit\u2019s suitably rambling book should appeal to the green-fingered and the politically committed alikeThe roses are in dire need of pruning. My rambler in particular is getting very tangled; too many whipping tendrils snaking out haphazardly at all angles. But it\u2019s so pretty it\u2019s hard to be properly brutal with it, even though it would probably benefit from some judicious thinning. And yes, it is the experience of reading Rebecca Solnit\u2019s Orwell\u2019s Roses that has jogged my memory.The book simultaneously is and isn\u2019t about George Orwell, just as it is and isn\u2019t about roses. It belongs in a whimsical category of its own, meandering elegantly enough through lots of subjects loosely connected to one or the other; more of a wildly overgrown essay, from which side shoots constantly emerge to snag the attention, than a book. But at its root is the fact that in 1936, the writer and political thinker planted some roses in his Hertfordshire garden. And when Solnit turns up on the doorstep more than eight decades later, she finds the rose bushes (or at least what she takes to be the same rose bushes) still flowering, a living connection between past and present. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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