THE PAPER GARDEN

Book ID/图书代码： 00500010B38714

English Summary/英文概要： The Paper Garden is unlike anything else you have ever read. At once a biography of an extraordinary 18th century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity, it is a beautifully written tour de force from an acclaimed poet. Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788) was the witty, beautiful and talented daughter of a minor branch of a powerful family. Married off at 16 to a 61-year-old drunken squire to improve the family fortunes, she was widowed by 25, and henceforth had a small stipend and a horror of a marriage. She spurned many suitors over the next twenty years, including the powerful Lord Baltimore and the charismatic radical John Wesley. She cultivated a wide circle of friends, including Handel and Jonathan Swift. And she painted, she stitched, she observed, as she swirled in the outskirts of the Georgian court. In mid-life she found love, and married. Upon her husband’s death 23 years later, she arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors and, at the age of 72, created a new art form, mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs Delany created an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum and referred to as the Botanica Delanica.
Delicately, Peacock has woven parallels in her own life around the story of Mrs Delany’s and, in doing so, has made this biography into a profound and beautiful examination of the nature of creativity and art.
Gorgeously designed and featuring 35 full-colour illustrations, this is a sumptuous and lively book full of fashion and friendships, gossip and politics, letters and love. It’s to be devoured as voraciously as one of the court dinners it describes.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 35幅全彩照片盡顯紙質藝術花園的無窮魅力

也許你曾博覽群書，但《紙花園》絕對是那種可以讓你耳目一新的作品，它是一位元18世紀老婦人的非凡傳記，同時也是對於其晚年創作的深度思索。瑪麗.格蘭維爾.彭達弗.德拉尼出生於一個大家族的分支，天生麗質，聰慧過人。芳齡16歲時迫於改善家庭的窘境，嫁給了61歲的酒鬼鄉坤，25歲守寡，自此依靠一點微薄的薪俸度日，並且一度對婚姻充滿了恐懼。之後的20年，瑪麗拒絕了無數追求者，甚至包括勢力強大的巴爾的摩勳爵和很有感召力的激進分子約翰.衛斯理。她廣交善友，學習繪畫縫紉，人近中年時再墮愛河，喜結連理。23年後，瑪麗再度喪夫，這時她已經72歲高齡，但是這位擁有強大內心的老太太卻沒有被打垮，她收起悲痛，拿起剪刀，於是一種嶄新的藝術形式—混貼畫，就這樣在世人驚歎的目光中，在瑪麗靈動的手指尖—應運而生了。接下來的十年裡，德拉尼女士共創造了985種以植物為參照物件的剪紙花，現在被收藏在大英博物館中。

經過精緻的處理，作者皮科克將自己某些相似的生活經歷也融入到了德拉尼女士的傳記中，本書已不僅僅是一部傳記，還將藝術創造的魅力深刻而華麗得展現在我們面前。
精美的設計，配有35幅全彩插圖，皮科克的這部作品就像是一個時尚而動感的舞臺，而關於友誼、流言，關於政論、文學，關於善和愛，則像是這個舞臺上一個個歡呼跳躍的音符。相信這將會是一部“因為太美而不忍獨自佔有”的佳品尤物。

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Awards/获奖情况：入圍不列顛哥倫比亞非小說類國家獎（加拿大最令人矚目的非小說獎項）
加拿大暢銷書排行榜名列榜首
2010麥克萊恩20強
2010年九月被《加拿大環球郵報》評為“今秋10本必讀書籍”之一
2010年被《環球郵報》評為“全球100本精選書目”之一
2011年5月被評為“好管家”精選書目

版權已售：
加拿大/McClelland &Stewart/October 2010
美國/Bloomsbury/April 2011
英國/Bloomsbury/April 2011
澳大利亞/Scribe/October 2011
新西蘭/Scribe/October 2011

About the Author/作者介绍： 莫莉•皮考克（Molly Peacock）已有六册诗集的创作，包括最近的《第二缕红晕》（The Second Blush）等。此外，她还著有一部自传《咫尺天堂》（Paradise, Piece by Piece），一本评论，编辑了一册散文，还为国内各大杂志专写大量文章，奠定了她在诗界的女性地位。
Molly Peacock has written six volumes of poetry, most recently The Second Blush (2008) and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems (2002, both from W.W. Norton and Company). She has also written a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece (Riverhead, 1997), and a book of criticism, How to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle (Riverhead Books, 1999); edited The Private I: Privacy in a Public World, a volume of essays (Graywolf, 2001); and written numerous articles for national magazines, such as Oprah Magazine, Elle, House and Garden, and the leading Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. These articles often connect poetry to the larger world, as did her one-woman stage show in poetry, “The Shimmering Verge,” which she wrote as well as performed for several years, culminating in a showcase Off-Broadway run in February 2006. She has brought poetry to the public in many ways, including serving as President of the Poetry Society of America and as a creator of Poetry in Motion on New York’s (and now the nation’s) subways and buses.

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