Orwell’s Roses
- Author Rebecca Solnit
- Narrator Rebecca Solnit
- Publisher Granta Books
- Run Time 7 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: historical, political and military, Natural and wild gardening.
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Critics Review
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There is nothing more political than a garden, and Rebecca Solnit brings Orwell’s life and writing vividly alive through his quiet determination to love the surface of the earth. Orwell’s Roses shows how intimately aesthetics is intertwined with ethics, and in doing so, Solnit has given us a truly beautiful book
Alex Christofi, author of Dostoevsky in Love -
This an enchanting book, as powerful in its arguments as it is enjoyable to read. From a surprising close-up of George Orwell planting three Woolworth roses, Solnit pans to a bracing new vista of the man and his fierce political aesthetic, taking in the injustices of the rose industry and lying Soviet science as she goes. Brilliant
Lisa Appignanesi -
This elegant rambling rose of a book muses on Orwell with all Rebecca Solnit’s luminous intelligence and trademark optimism. If “Orwellian” has become synonymous with darkness and oppression, she opens up his life affirming love of gardening, of wild nature and life’s physical pleasure, his antidote to the grim puritanism of ideologues
Polly Toynbee -
I loved this book, and so will many… an exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses
Margaret Atwood -
This book is brilliant because it is true, and because it rescues Orwell from a kind of dourness and seriousness, and gives him back his humanity and yes, his Englishness.
James Rebanks, author of English Pastoral and The Shepherd's Life -
I so loved this book. It unfolds like the petals of a rose – the political rose, the personal rose – and enacts its subject in the ethics of its beauty and the grace of its resistance
Jay Griffiths, author of Why Rebel
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