Griefwork by James Hamilton-Paterson
Leon can do anything with plants; he is the ultimate gardener. Tending his precious cargo of tropical trees and flowers while Europe sinks into hell, he never leaves his beautiful old palm-house because of his near-fatal lung illness. He projects his thoughts into his beloved plants, with whom he is far happier than he is with people. His life is haunted by loss, of his mother of the young Asian girl he loved one summer in his childhood, of the perfection that he can find only in the imaginary order of scientific classification. In the ruined city, with barely enough fuel to keep his palm house heated, this fragile life in its glass sanctuary is threatened by dangers: an Asian princess offers him a job in the real tropics; the palm-house is threatened with closure, and his fantasies are becoming uncontrolled
James Hamilton-Paterson was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize. In addition to journalism for The Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, he has publushed poetry and two colections of short stories, The View from Mount Dog and his most recent work, The Music. The non-fiction work, Playing with Water, was followed by his first novel, Geronitus, which won a Whitbread Prize in 1989, and The Bell-Boy. On 1982 he published Seven Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds, a blend of literature and science exploring the sea. His novel Griefwork, published in 1993, was much acclaimed, and his most recent novel, Ghosts of Manila, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Ficiton Prize in 1994. He lives in Italy and the Philppines.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224037174 |
| ISBN 10 | 022403717X |
| Title | Griefwork |
| Author | James Hamilton-Paterson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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