Love in the Garden

by Jean-Pierre Otte, Moishe Black, Maria Green

Book Overview

A garden is a peaceful, beautiful sanctuary, but beneath its serene appearance is a seething hive of sex, violence, and treachery--among its flowers and insects, that is. Based on years of voyeuristic observation, Love in the Garden reveals intricate, humorous, and often horrifying intimate details about the frenzied sexual lives of garden flowers and insects. Written with a poetic fancy and with wit, and from a shamelessly anthropomorphic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080761467X
• ISBN13: 9780807614679
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Poetic fancy and lively wit

Ably translated by Moishe Black and Maria Green, Love In The Garden offers a poetic fancy and lively wit as Jean-Pierre Otte's presents in anthropomorphic perspective the ingenuity and variety of (...) tactics of garden insects and flowers. Otte reveals intricate, humorous, and often horrifying intimate details about the frenzied (...) lives of garden flowers and insects that enriches the scientific knowledge of the reader as well as involving the reader (through(...) and all forms of sensation) to the turbulence of live. Love In The Garden is ardently recommended reading for anyone who has ever watch the small and varied life of within a family garden, up close and personal!

Love in the Garden

Delightful source for folklore concerning flowers! Serious and beginning gardeners will be entertained with the information discovered between the covers of this charming garden book.