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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Era
- 2000s
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781565124646
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565124642
ISBN-13
9781565124646
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56986011
Product Key Features
Book Title
Otherwise Normal People : inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening
Number of Pages
290 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Flowers / Roses, General
Genre
Gardening
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-027489
Reviews
"Has done for rose growers what the mockumentary 'Best in Show' did for dog shows and 'The Orchid Thief' did for orchid collectors. . . . [Scott] explores a subculture that is as entertaining as it is obsessive."--Boston Globe, "Scott leads readers through the slow, diabolical transition that takes 'otherwise normal people' from hobbyist to serious grower, putting rose-mania in perspective for the rosarian and the amateur. She has a light, humorous style. . . .You will never look at a rose the same way again." --Washington Post, "This fun read . . . offers the rose lover's equivalent of the film Best in Show. . . . [Scott] observes this fascinating subculture lovingly. . . . You don't have to aspire to showing the world's best-ever 'Peace' to enjoy the ride, and Scott manages to sprinkle plenty of fascinating rose history into her brew." --Houston Chronicle, "The rose gardener's answer to our recent intrigue with dog-show people, spelling-bee aficionados, bird-watchers and any other over-the-top hobbyist who, when viewed closely, demonstrates how human nature can hang its hat on one topic ferociously so."--Rocky Mountain News, "Her book will amaze and entertain. . . . If you enjoy the deeply focused but friendly nature of gardeners, you'll savor every page of this true story of passion and obsession."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "With a breezy, infectious enthusiasm Scott offers a vividly engaging account of big-time rose competition and the seemingly average people who take leave of their senses in this addictively sensory pursuit." --Booklist, " With a breezy, infectious enthusiasm Scott offers a vividly engaging account of big-time rose competition and the seemingly average people who take leave of their senses in this addictively sensory pursuit." --Booklist, "Investigative visits with some gung-ho rose-lovers, who reveal their methods motivation and super-competitive ways. Scott, a journalist and rose grower in Portland, Maine, treks cross-country from her hometown to various sunny spots in California, stopping at the homes of numerous rose experts to find out why the flowers enthrall these cheerful, hardworking, deeply committed people. . . .Along the way Scott offers some fascinating bits of historical trivia. . .The laborious agonies of creating beauty, captured in relaxed, anecdotal prose." --Kirkus Reviews, "A testament to the sheer nuttiness of what happens when you cross unchecked human ambition with nature."--Seattle Times
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
635.9/33734092273
Synopsis
Twice a year America's rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the highest honor: the Queen of Show. Doctors. Teachers. Sheet metal mechanics. Lawyers. Truck drivers. Men and women. These are type A gardeners, and for them this is a blood sport. They grow tender roses in the frigid North and disease prone roses in the humid South simply for the challenge. They decorate otherwise lovely yards with paper bags and panty hose to isolate their choice specimens. They traipse through overgrown fields in the worst weather to save antique roses from extinction. Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds, Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious charges. With all the appeal of Word Freak , Otherwise Normal People celebrates the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty--and, of course, the thrill of victory., Plato has often been read as denigrating the cognitive and ethical value of poetry. In his dialogues, the faculty that corresponds to the poetic--the imagination--is located at the lowest level of human intelligence, and so it is furthest from true understanding. Simultaneously, the Platonic dialogues violate Plato's own alleged prohibitions against quoting and imitating poets, and much of the writing in the dialogues is poetic. All too often, the voluminous literature on Plato dismisses Plato's poetic formulations as merely the unintended contradictions of an otherwise meticulous author. In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination asks whether this ubiquitous reading misses something truly significant in Plato's understanding of the cognitive and ethical dimensions of human existence. Throughout the dialogues, Plato formulates ideas so precisely, utilizing carefully crafted images and structures, that we must question whether his flagrant and performative poetics can be mere mistakes, and inquire into how the poetic and creative arts contribute to true understanding. This book approaches the latter question by analyzing the role of the imagination in Platonic dialogues. It argues that critiquing poetry by poetic means, just as arguing against mimsis mimetically in the Republic or writing against the written word in the Phaedrus, constitute performative contradictions that bear significant philosophical meaning on further examination. The book suggests that the elusive examples of dialectic referred to in the divided line are the dialogues themselves--the putting into practice of ethical ideals. If so, the role of the imagination is to be sought in the unfolding of the dialogues themselves, not simply in what is said, but also in what takes place within the dialogues., Twice a year America's rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the highest honor: the Queen of Show. Doctors. Teachers. Sheet metal mechanics. Lawyers. Truck drivers. Men and women. These are type A gardeners, and for them this is a blood sport. They grow tender roses in the frigid North and disease prone roses in the humid South simply for the challenge. They decorate otherwise lovely yards with paper bags and panty hose to isolate their choice specimens. They traipse through overgrown fields in the worst weather to save antique roses from extinction. Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds, Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious charges. With all the appeal of "Word Freak", "Otherwise Normal People" celebrates the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty--and, of course, the thrill of victory., Scott trails self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete in the annual national rose show, documenting how they celebrate the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty--and, of course, the thrill of victory.
LC Classification Number
SB411.4.S36 2007
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