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Carol Duchamp
Artist, Author, Educator
Garlic and Roses
By Carol Duchamp
Discover the vibrant world of Garlic and Roses.
Available for purchase online at Blurb Books or at local venues like Depot Café and Bookstore, Mill Valley, CA.
For loan from the Bolinas Library.
Contact caroljduchamp@gmail.com for inquiries or direct purchase
“Garlic and Roses is remarkable - a touching love story and a near
encyclopedic tour of leftist thought and agitation, and the literature that was derigueur when we were young. I say 'we' because the milieu you describe took me straight back to those exciting, giddy times unlike any novel I have read for a long while. How well you evoke the mood of intellectual ferment andenthusiasm! How did all this idealism vanish? What a pleasure to be taken back to that world and to feel so many memories come alive!”
Peter Deswart,
sculptor and mixed media artist, Inverness, CA
“I have apparently made parasocial friendships with both Arcadia and Anton, and am entirely captivated by the extent to which Garlic and Roses involves mnemonic journeys I've not taken for years. I delight in the references to French intellectual culture. My spirit is elated by the rich fabric of names that reflect European philosophy, poetry and the novels that I eagerly read in my university days. I kept wondering, who will I run into next? Gaston
Bachelard? And there he was, on page 82!"
Charles Anselmo,
printmaker, founder and director of Continuum Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
“Congratulations on Garlic and Roses. Beautiful language, a fun time warp back into the activist/swinging 60s, and very charming characters.”
Dieter Tremp,
visual artist, member Bolinas Museum advisory board,
Bolinas, CA
“Garlic and Roses is a quite remarkable piece of work. My guess is that you kept your diaries, your class notes, and some of your books. In any case, theintellectual, cultural and artistic content is lovely. Congratulations.”
Michael Lerner,
co-founder of Commonweal and board chair emeritus, Bolinas, CA
“Ms. Duchamp depicts events as in the dream she has never ceased to pursue,
that of painting in words an authentic portrait of pre-1968 France. Subversive
citations capture the spirit of the times. Descriptions of student life at an epoch
moment of change charge from the page. She captures the gestalt. Strasbourg is
no longer the same. My hope is that Garlic and Roses will be translated into
French and distributed here.”
André Bertrand, co-author of Le scandale deStrasbourg. Strasbourg, France
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