(DOWNLOAD) "Road Shoes" by Darla Worden ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Road Shoes
- Author : Darla Worden
- Release Date : January 09, 2010
- Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 737 KB
Description
It starts as a Martha Stewart-style fantasy. When newlywed gardening magazine editor Laura Von Baden and her husband Thomas purchase forty acres of land in northwestern Colorado, Laura envisions a picturesque rural retreat. Discovering she's pregnant only fuels her passion for creating the ideal country home-an escape from city stresses-for her family. But the dream starts to unravel when Laura and Thomas find themselves plagued with absentee landowner responsibilities as a menacing neighbor trespasses, floods their land, and swindles them out of water and mineral rights. As the neighborly dispute degenerates into a full-blown feud, Laura begins to see an explosive, frighteningly irrational side to city-bred Thomas, who starts spending spend more and more time up on their forty acres even as a pregnancy complication leaves Laura bedridden in Denver with her career and marriage in jeopardy. A rich cast of characters-including Laura's new-age best friend Serrine, her career-challenged brother Lester, their eccentric mother, an unusual mountain man, and a Native American high school teacher/deputy sheriff-all play warm and sometimes comic roles as the crises around Laura escalate toward an unexpected but wholly satisfying conclusion. In Road Shoes, author Darla Worden addresses a large number of topics of current interest: the subdividing of the West into "vanity ranches"; the baby-boomer propelled gardening boom; survivalists; Native American rights and artifacts; the more subtle, verbal forms of domestic violence; career woman pregnancy; "Earthships" (self-sufficient dwellings of the type actor/environmentalist Dennis Weaver built in Colorado); male bonding and "drumming"; and various alternative health practices and new-age ideas. Worden successfully integrates these diverse elements to create a fascinating, deep-textured-and often humorous-environment in which the story's emotional events unfold. Worden has a gift for writing in general, a fresh and appealing voice, and a flair for ironic humor and social satire.
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