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Northern Borders

A Novel

by Howard Frank Mosher
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A New York Times Notable Book: A novel about growing up in a remote corner of Vermont, from the author Richard Russo calls "one of our very best writers."

When six-year-old Austen Kittredge was sent up north to live on his grandparents' farm in 1948, he didn't know that he would spend the next twelve years of his life there—or that his remarkable stay would never leave him, no matter how far he traveled.

The farm in Lost Nation Hollow would become a magical place for Austen, full of eccentric people—like his stubborn but loving grandparents, whose marriage was known as the Forty Years War—wild adventures, and festering family secrets. An enchanting, startling coming-of-age novel, Northern Borders evokes a world of county fairs, heirloom quilts, and timber forests, in "a touching and unforgettable portrait of a people and time that are past" (Fannie Flagg, The New York Times Book Review).

"A contemporary classic . . . A complex, yet idyllic, story of childhood in Vermont." —Los Angeles Times

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  • Release date

    August 12, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9780547526546

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      • ISBN: 9780547526546
      • File size: 431 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 1, 1994
      Haunting, pastoral images and odd, unforgettable characters pervade this spellbinding tale of rural northern Vermont in the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the memories of Austen Kittredge III, who lived on his grandparents' farm in Lost Nation Hollow from age six to 18, Mosher (A Stranger in the Kingdom) fashions a moving tribute to the rugged lifestyle and strong individualistic values of an era that is vanishing even as young Austen discovers it. From his hard-working, misanthropic grandfather, the self-proclaimed ``meanest old bastard in Kingdom County,'' and his equally willful grandmother Abiah, fascinated by Egyptology and constantly battling with her husband, Austen receives a unique education, filled with dramatic introductions to nature, history and the fascinating people (many of them family) that make up his ``Kingdom.'' Mosher's understated prose and mastery of affectionate detail bring to life Austen's remembered world with vivid immediacy and great poignancy.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 4, 1995
      This haunting, unforgettable novel of rural northern Vermont in the '40s and '50s was a New England Booksellers Association award winner.

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