Northern Borders - Softcover

MOSHER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618240098 ISBN 13: 9780618240098

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

Spending the summer of 1948 with his grandparents on Vermont's Canadian border, six-year-old Austen Kittredge finds a new home on their farm amidst the Lost Nation community of country fairs, game hunting, one-room schools, and family life. Reprint.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0618240098
• ISBN 13: 9780618240098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304