Rousseau's Garden

by Ann Charney

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579620337
• ISBN13: 9781579620332
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful novel

Rousseau's Garden is both a literary work of the best contemporary order and an engaging "read" for women. J.-J. Rousseau's somewhat pathetic life, misted with the charms of French Romanticism, combines well with the plot of the novel. The ruined home and garden of one of the old French aristocracy bridges the time between the gardens created for Rousseau by the Marquis de Girardin and modern Paris, as the World War II scenes recounted by the countess link to the political struggles of Marta, Bruno, and their friends. Faultless. And being a woman myself, I mean no disrespect by the first sentence of this review.