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Informationen zum Autor SUSAN BROWNMILLER is a feminist journalist, activist, and best-selling author. Her most acclaimed title is Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Her other books include, Femininity, Waverly Place, Seeing Vietnam, and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Klappentext Big city highrises are chockfull of penthouses and terraces that garden innocents hope to turn into a sylvan paradise or a bower of roses. That's at least what they see in movies and real-estate ads. With honesty and humour! and thirty-five years of challenges and triumphs! best-selling author! Susan Brownmiller describes her battle to sustain an oasis of beauty twenty floors above street level in Manhattan. Inhaltsverzeichnis CHAPTER 1: HELLO, TERRACE CHAPTER 2. WIND CHAPTER 3. THE BIRCHES CHAPTER 4. THE CHORES OF MARCH CHAPTER 5. A WATER FEATURE CHAPTER 6. BUSHELS OF PEACHES CHAPTER 7. A FIELD OF COREOPSIS CHAPTER 8. EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS CHAPTER 9. COMING UP ROSES CHAPTER 10. BUTTERFLIES IN THE GARDEN CHAPTER 11. DAYLILY DREAMS CHAPTER 12. A PEONY BUSH CHAPTER 13. HYDRANGEAS CHAPTER 14. MY THIRTY-YEAR GERANIUMS CHAPTER 15. MY IRIS EXPERIENCE CHAPTER 16. RIOTOUS ANNUALS CHAPTER 17. BOSTON IVY CHAPTER 18. HONEYSUCKLE IS NOSTALGIA CHAPTER 19. HELPING A CLEMATIS CHAPTER 20. ALAS, THE ROAMING CAT CHAPTER 21. THE MOCKINGBIRD ON THE ROOFTOP CHAPTER 22. FALL IS FOR RECKONING EPILOGUE: A WOMAN’S WAY
