Ordinary Magic

Porter, Ruth (Author, Editor, Illustrator)

ISBN 10: 0976942232 / ISBN 13: 9780976942238

Published by Bar Nothing Books, Montpelier, Vt., 2009

About this Item

446 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Record # 457026.

Seller Inventory # 457026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ordinary Magic
• Publisher: Bar Nothing Books, Montpelier, Vt.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976942232
• ISBN 13: 9780976942238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Ruth Porter; Photographer
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The first thing that happens is that Cal Willard gets shot in the foot. It s 1977, the day after Thanksgiving, which means that deer season is almost over. Cal s brother George goes to the hospital to see him, even though he hasn t had much to do with Cal for years, really since he got a law degree and moved to town. George has two daughters, now both grown up. Nora is secretly pregnant and trying to figure out what to do about it. Her sister Lena is married with two small children and problems with her husband. Then there is Cal s son, Conrad, whose life is very different from that of his cousins. He decides to buy a log skidder so he can go into business for himself selling firewood to people who are burning wood because of the oil crisis. These are ordinary events, but there s magic in the way they play out over the winter and into the spring. A good read for people who liked Porter s previous novel, The Simple Life, or for people who like stories of ordinary life, truly rendered, with horses and dogs, children and winter weather Vermont life in the country and in town.

About the Author

Ruth King Porter was born in New York City. She grew up in a small town in Ohio and graduated from St. John s College in Annapolis, MD. She and her husband, Bill Porter, came to Vermont in 1964 when Bill got a job on the Rutland Herald. In 1973 they moved to a farm in Adamant near Montpelier, where they have lived ever since. Porter raised their four children and most of their food and farm animals. She collaborated with her aunt, Bertha Frothingham, to edit a book of Maxwell Perkins personal letters, Father To Daughter. Porter has also written a one-man show about Perkins and has written and published one previous novel, The Simple Life.