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Northern Borders: A Novel
by Howard Frank Mosher

Published: 2002-09-04
Paperback : 304 pages
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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 ...
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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.

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  "Northern Borders: A Novel"by Joanne I. (see profile) 12/22/10

This book was a difficult read for all members of our club. It was slow and boring.

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