{"product_id":"the-garden-paperback-6","title":"The Garden - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClare Beams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Genius.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e - \"A teeming gothic.\"--\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair \u003c\/i\u003e- \"Few novels of literary fiction are written as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Garden.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe LA Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn eerie, masterful novel about pregnancy as a haunted house and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award-winning author \u003ci\u003eof The Illness Lesson \u003c\/i\u003e(\"A masterpiece\" - Elizabeth Gilbert) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires, is now pregnant again. She comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition. Warily, she enlists herself in the efforts of the Doctors Hall to \"rectify the maternal environment,\" both physical and psychological. In the meantime, she also discovers a long-forgotten walled garden on the spacious grounds, a place imbued with its own powers and pulls. As the doctors' plans begin to crumble, Irene and her fellow patients make a desperate bid to harness the power of the garden for themselves--and face the unthinkable risks associated with such incalculable rewards. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith shades of Shirley Jackson and \u003ci\u003eRosemary's Baby, The Garden\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the territory of motherhood, childbirth, the mysteries of the female body, and the ways it has always been controlled and corralled.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLARE BEAMS is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Illness Lesson \u003c\/i\u003eand the story collection \u003ci\u003eWe Show What We Have Learned\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Bard Prize and was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016, as well as a finalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. With her husband and two daughters, she lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43158119514175,"sku":"9780593466544","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/LzyvbPbBTk9780593466544.webp?v=1776987134","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-garden-paperback-6","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}