There Is A Season
A Memoir
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…
$24.00
February 25, 2005
Patrick Lane was one of Canada’s most renowned writers, and over a distinguished career that spanned fifty years, he produced a multi-award-winning body of work comprising twenty-five volumes of poetry, two novels, and a memoir.
Lane’s memoir, There Is a Season (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), won the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and the inaugural British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction, and was also a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize, the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-fiction. Lane’s first novel, Red Dog, Red Dog (McClelland & Stewart, 2008), was a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award…
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