The Good-Hearted Gardeners / Suniti Namjoshi
- Bib ID:
- 10008589
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Namjoshi, Suniti, 1941-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Little River, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 955KB
- ISBN:
- 9781922964014
- Summary:
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"Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It's funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that English is even more widespread than anyone had thought. Even the birds and the fish, the cows and the kangaroos can speak it, when they choose. The Good-Hearted Gardeners set about trying to talk to anyone, crows, magpies, robins, goldfish, cows, horses, rats, mice, who will talk to them. With climate change and technology gone mad, what's in store is a frightening scenario that threatens everyone -- humans, animals, plants. Can the headlong rush to extinction be halted? When the birds, and the cows and the horses and the mice and all the rest come together, much is made possible. But at what cost? Will the planet and its inhabitants be saved? A comedic allegory for our future." -- publisher.
- Full contents:
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- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- An Explanation
- 1. She's either very tall or standing on a ladder
- 2. Like a set of false teeth
- 3. Nobody has a private ocean
- 4. One of the things I like about the English
- 5. The King's head
- 6. On remote shores whole lives are lived in English
- 7. Fining babies
- 8. Bad things happen in fairy tales
- 9. They're good at it. We are not.
- 10. If the horses co-operated
- 11. Why do they think intelligent life has to be alien?
- 12. Even a skinny cow outweighs a policeperson 13. Soupies and Muties
- 14. Living out our lives on the saved-in-time planet
- Acknowledgements.
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- Publication date:
- 2023
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