Howard Frank Mosher
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Vermont, Jane Hubbell Kinneson, the last resident of a remote mountain on the U.S.-Canadian border that is threatened by a proposed new highway, confronts a mysterious pilot searching for a cache of stolen gold who crashes his plane on her mountain.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Howard Frank Mosher embarked on a journey following America's northern border from coast to coast in search of the country's last unspoiled frontiers. What he discovered was a vast and sparsely settled territory largely ignored by the rest of the United States and Canada; a harsh and beautiful region populated by some of the continent's most independent men and women. Mosher brings the remote North Country vividly to life, and reflects on the powerful...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The final book by one of America's most treasured writers. Upon his passing in January 2017, Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, and others who settled in this ethereal place. In its obituary, The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Mosher's fictional Kingdom County,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Earnest and innocent, a bright high school student, Jim grows curious about the unspoken 'trouble in the family' that haunts his father, a small-town newspaper editor, and his grandfather, a raconteur who keeps the Kinnesons' secrets to himself. Layer by layer, tale by tale, sorting out fact from deliberately obscured legend, Jim explores the Kinnesons' long relationship with others in the Kingdom, culminating in a discovery that forever changes...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
These seven striking tales of life in rural New England are both lyrical and captivating. Kingdom County, Vermont, is an isolated vestige of an earlier New England. In its rugged hills, a proud and resourceful people struggle to live on the land that is both their adversary and their life's blood. "Within the borders of his fictional kingdom," the Providence Journal has noted, "Mosher has created mountains and rivers, timber forests and crossroads...
Series
Publisher
A-Pix Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Legendary Yankee log-driver, Noel Lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy... but then, he'd never met Noel Lord.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save his family, Quebec Bill and his son embark on a spellbinding and unforgettable trip. This treacherous journey through the wilderness will lead them to discover a haunted and elusive past.
12) Northern borders
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer of 1948 with his grandparents on Vermont's Canadian border, a boy finds a new home on their farm amidst the Lost Nation community of country fairs, game hunting, one-room schools, and family life.