num_pages: 320
description: Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncommon beauty, where the climate is mild, the air is soft, and the growing season lasts nearly all year long.Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and sees his garden’s life as intertwined with his own. And when he gave up drinking, after years of addiction, he found solace and healing in tending to his yard. In this exquisitely written memoir, he relates stories of his hard early life in the context of the landscape he’s created. As he observes the seasonal changes, a plant or a bird or the way a tree bends in the wind brings to mind an episode from his storied past.Lane writes evocative descriptions of the animals, birds, insects, and plants that are his garden, and of the relationship he has to them all. Accompany Lane as he wanders his garden, where botanical “madeleines” release in him a flood of memory.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: There Is A Season
titlecomplete: There Is A Season
genres: Biography, Memoir, Gardening, Poetry, Canada, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 180
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
publisher: McClelland & Stewart