The Simple Life

By Ruth King Porter

Book Overview

A deeply engaging rural drama about well-meaning, ordinary people whose lives become tragically entangled.Isabel Rawlings, a recently-divorced, middle-aged suburbanite, moves to rural Vermont in search of the simple life. Everything seems to be going well as she settles into her new home. She makes friends with an old ox teamster and his great-granddaughter, and develops a romantic relationship with Leroy LaFourniere, a local real estate developer and entrepreneur. But after a tragic farm accident everything begins to unravel, and Isabel comes to realize there's nothing simple about the simple life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976942259
• ISBN13: 9780976942252
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Bar Nothing Books
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.3" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

An engaging tale depicting the reality of our human tendencies and inevitable

The Simple Life by Ruth Porter is an engaging tale depicting the reality of our human tendencies and inevitable, and the observation that those particular connections to our nature may be our most important and influential connections. Tactfully relating to its readers as the intimate tale of a rural tragedy, The Simple Life is an intuitive and intricate metaphor for the beauty and disposition which we as humans place ourselves into every day through out our lives, regardless of predetermined or understood truths. The Simple Life is very highly recommended to all readers of general fiction for its deftly presented message and an invaluable understanding of human nature and reality as a piece of modern American literature.