Overview
""One Good Thing"" is a delightful hybrid of creative non-fiction and memoir. Written in sixty-four epistolary sections, it represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing world. It is also a book of homage to gardening columnist extraordinaire Helen Chesnut of the Victoria Times Colonist, as each section focusses and expands on a particular gardening column of hers. Using a familiar ""Dear Helen"" structure, almost every piece in One Good Thing relates to the original gardening article that gave rise to it while, at times, ranging into a myriad of other topics, including the author's practice of creating art, personal and familial details, and comic riffs on a number of close-to-the-heart themes. The book focusses on finding personal ""calm abidance"" through the practice of gardening as mediated by the universal and personal practice of writing.
Full Product Details
Author: M.A.C. Farrant
Publisher: Talon Books,Canada
Imprint: Talon Books,Canada
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 19.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 12.70cm
Weight: 0.220kg
ISBN: 9781772012842
ISBN 10: 177201284
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 13 May 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Very readable — a complex thought written from the heart."" —Anny Scoones, Times Colonist ~||~ ""One Good Thing shows how garden-variety imperfections can still be instructive, delicious, even wonderful. They can distract us, momentarily perhaps, but to positive effect, from all that remains wrong and bleak and contested in the world."" —Kyle Wyatt, Literary Review of Canada
Very readable - a complex thought written from the heart -- Anny Scoones * https://www.timescolonist.com/anny-scoones-spring-hikes-and-random-thoughts-on-the-wisdom-of-helen-chesnut-1.24300216 *
Very readable - a complex thought written from the heart. -Anny Scoones, Times Colonist ~||~ One Good Thing shows how garden-variety imperfections can still be instructive, delicious, even wonderful. They can distract us, momentarily perhaps, but to positive effect, from all that remains wrong and bleak and contested in the world. -Kyle Wyatt, Literary Review of Canada
Author Information
M.A.C. Farrantis the author of seventeen works of fiction, non-fiction, and memoir, two plays, and over one hundred book reviews and essays. A trilogy of her ""miniature fictions""-The World Afloat, The Days, and The Great Happiness-was published by Talonbooks between 2014 and 2019 and has won a number of literary prizes, including the City of Victoria Book Butler Book Prize. BC Bookworld called Farrant ""Canada's most acerbic and intelligent humourist"" and the Ottawa Citizen dubbed her ""one of the best humourists in the land.""
