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Growing, Older: A Chronicle Of Death, Life, And Vegetables (2010)

by Joan Dye Gussow(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1603582924 (ISBN13: 9781603582926)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing

review 1: I love this book in so many ways. The title is decieving. It is about so much more. She writes so beautifully you feel like you cups just be sitting at her kitchen table over a cup of coffee. Maybe it came toe at just the right time, as there were so many parallels. I am nowhere near the age of the author, however my dad recently died In a similarly unexpected way to her husband. She lives and gardens and does not stop caring or working for the good of the planet. It is gratifying to know that someone can be living and fighting to protect the environment for over 50 years and not burn out or give up.
review 2: As a fan of Gussow's earlier, better book, "This Organic Life," I felt compelled to pick this up after I had read about it. So far, it's fair--I love he... morer crotchety spirit, but her writing flags at times, mostly pedestrian (fine when writing about vegetable gardening), but occasionally a sentence gasps for help or at least palliative care. ("What we really have are cheap raw materials like corn, soy, and wheat, of which the true costs of raising are paid on our tax bill." (p. 88) Did Sarah Palin write this?) Nonetheless, I soldier on for the mad, vegetable-y parts. Done soldiering. less

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