| Northern Borders Contributor(s): Mosher, Howard Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618240098 ISBN-13: 9780618240098 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: Northern Borders is Mosher's nostalgic novel of life in northern Vermont's Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves his widowed father to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in the township of Lost Nation. Escapades at the county fair, doings at the annual family reunion and Shakespeare performance, and conflicts at the one-room schoolhouse are all recounted lovingly in this enchanting coming-of-age story filled with luminous memories and the deepest of childhood secrets, as a boy is molded into a man. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.85 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Vermont |
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Contributor Bio(s): Mosher, Howard Frank: - HOWARD FRANK MOSHER is the author of ten books, including Waiting for Teddy Williams, The True Account, and A Stranger in the Kingdom, which, along with Disappearances, was corecipient of the New England Book Award for fiction. He lives in Vermont. |