One night, William spots the gardener, follows him, and gets a topiary lesson. Something good.” A topiary parrot appears, an elephant, a magnificent dragon townspeople of varying ages and ethnicities rejoice, and the spreads take on livelier hues. The town, initially rendered in gray pencil, shows a blush of color as people gather to marvel: “Something was happening on Grimloch Lane. In the morning, the man’s artistry is revealed: the tree has been shaped into an owl like the one William has drawn. After dark, readers see the stranger at work with his shears in a tree in front of the building. William, an orphan, sits glumly in front of his orphanage scratching an owl in the dirt as a stranger walks by. Brothers Terry and Eric Fan set their first story in a dreary town and imagine what happens when it is transformed by a gardener’s skill.
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On top of writing copy for ad agencies, he drove a cab and picked fruit in the years he spent trying to identify his purpose as an artist.įurst married his wife in 1969. The author tried his hand at a number of odd jobs after university. His interest in anthropology led to an encounter with Margaret Mead who became his employer.īesides the MA he got from Penn State University, Furst also pursued and failed to finish his Ph.D. By then, he had already majored in English, eventually graduating with a BA in 1962. He believes that every writer should study anthropology. A former student at Horace Mann School, Furst also attended Oberlin College. As such, growing up in the Upper West Side, he spent a lot of time exploring Manhattan, either alone or with friends. His parents were older and he was an only child. Along with her boyfriend Cade – who’s more interested in making a quick buck out of her dying grandmother – she returns to the Taranaki farmhouse she grew up in. 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