Hothouse: Floral Imagery in Contemporary American Art
This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with brilliant imagery.
A thrilling parable of courage, discovery, and survival, Hothouse is among Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss’s most beloved and enduring works.
An account of the book publisher who is home to more Nobel Prize-winning writers than any other publishing house in the world reveals the era and city that built FSG through the stories of two men--Roger Straus and Robert Giroux.
Hothouse
It would be fun, it would be enlightening, and it might give readers the idea that FSG was a hip brand, a hot house once more. The FSG Reading Series was up and running in a matter of weeks. The first event, on January 17, 2008, ...
If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange, ya know, because of all that we had lost.
Originally published: New York: New American Library, c1962.
Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse.
Hothouse is set in 1950's Seattle and features three generations of women; grandmother "Ma", mother Roz and daughter Jody, whose vitality is in sharp contrast to the mates they have chosen.
With lush imagery and au courant asides, Hothouse surprises and delights. Karyna McGlynn is the author of I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl and three chapbooks.