Losing the garden : the story of a marriage

Summary: "In 1971 Laura and Guy Waterman decided to give up all the conveniences of life and homestead - living on the land, for the land - in a cabin in the mountains of Vermont. For Nearly three decades they created a deliberate life, eating food they grew themselves, using no running water or electricity. It was an extreme that most of us can only imagine sustaining for a week or two." "The end of their marriage came on a frigid day, February 6, 2000, when Guy climbed to the summit of Mount Lafayette in New Hampshire's White Mountains and sat down among the rocks to die. Losing the Garden is the memoir of a woman who was compelled to ask herself "How could I support my husband's plan to commit suicide?" It is an intimate examination of intricate and dark family histories and a marriage that tried to transcend them."

Record details

ISBN: 1593760485 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781593760489 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN: 159376104X
ISBN: 9781593761042
Physical Description: print
275 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Shoemaker & Hoard ; [Berkeley, Calif.] ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.