Set in the tiny village of Orient, Long Island, and in New York City, Into the Garden with Charles is a memoir about falling in love. As a boy in suburban New York in 1940s, Clyde Wachsberger daydreams about storybook gardens where magic happens under the huge leaves. Through the 1960s and 1970s, when most gay men disdained monogamy, the authora??an artist and set-designer in New York Citya??searches unsuccessfully for a soul mate. In 1983, approaching middle-age and having given up on finding love, he moves to a three-hundred-year-old house on a third of an acre, where he channels his passion into creating a garden appropriate to his historical home. Then remarkable circumstances lead him to Charlesa??a connoisseur of art, a gardener, and the man who will become his life-partner. Together they create a garden of sensuous wild beauty.Into the Garden with Charles is infused with the authora??s artistic sensibility and is written in a voice that is unaffected, generous, and...

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