Of Time and Chance: A Love Story of the '60s - Brossura

Porter, Ruth

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ISBN 10: 1737881608 ISBN 13: 9781737881605

Casa editrice: Bar Nothing Books, 2023

Riassunto

Unlikely lovers struggle with their relationship against the backdrop of the Vietnam War in Ruth Porter’s latest novel.

A chance meeting between a teenage farm boy and a free-spirited college girl in 1967 becomes a love story that underscores the challenges of the time. Set in rural Vermont over one summer, Of Time and Chance portrays the conflict between unquestioning patriots and a counterculture resisting involvement in the Vietnam War through powerful, understated storytelling and finely drawn characters that resist stereotype.

“I want to stay here with you.” “For just a second, he loved what she said. Then he thought about it. “But I won’t be here.”

She pulled away and looked into his face without saying anything.

“I’ve got a letter from the draft board. I ain’t got a choice. I got to report to them, or they will come and get me. And that means jail.” “You’re not seriously thinking about…”

“I don’t see what else I can do. I’ve always known this was going to happen. You’ve known it too.”

Porter …deftly weaves in a subplot regarding the wise, weary, and still hard-working Nellie’s shifting perspective about the war and growing fears about her declining health and imminent mortality. The novel’s New England rural setting is also well-captured: Crystal experiences a “magical walk in the forest at night” and learns that making hay bales, milking a cow, and camp cooking are not as simple and easy as they initially seem. A beautifully realized depiction of young love, rural life, and the ideological struggles of the era. — Kirkus Reviews

Another unique read from Adamant Vermont based independent book publisher, Bar Nothing Books.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ruth Porter was born in New York City and grew up in Alliance, Ohio, where her father was a doctor. After graduating from school in Cleveland she attended St. John's College in Annapolis. She married Bill Porter and in 1972 they moved to a hill farm in Adamant, Vermont where Ruth has lived ever since.Ruth raised four children and took care of the farm-one of the children said that she and Bill learned everything they knew about farming from books, and most of those books were novels-which included varying numbers of sheep, cows, pigs and chickens, and a big garden. Together they raised most of their food.Ruth spent her whole life reading and writing, but she began working seriously on fiction during those hectic years. She has published four novels, as well as a book about her grandfather, Maxwell Perkins, one of America's most widely respected editors. Though Bill died in 2022, the publishing company they started together in 2005, Bar Nothing Books, lives on.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bar Nothing Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1737881608
• ISBN 13: 9781737881605
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 188
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