Customer Reviews

Northern Borders

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I strongly recommend this heartwarming book written from a child's point of view in the beginning. Later on, as the boy grows, the reader gets acquainted with his myriad of experiences and encounters with various people and animals. In the end, the reader is filled with a sense of peace and serenity as all comes to a close. This book had me laughing, crying, smiling, cringing, and recalling the times of growing up.

Mosher is a brilliant storyteller. His characters are too real to be fictional! This ranks as one of my top ten favorites.

This is a great,fun, touching book. I absolutley loved it, and so have all the people whom I've given copies to. I have read all of Mosher's books, and while they're all very good, this is his best. I look forward to re-reading it while I wait impatiently for more from this excellent author.

In my Visions of Childhood class that I am currently taking at college, we were assigned Northern Borders. Given two weeks to read this, I found that I couldn't put it down and ultimately finished reading the material within two days! A must read for anyone who enjoys good fiction writing, without the complexities that many writers use as subterfuge for the story. Highly recommended for those in the class or not! Definetly looking forward to checking out more books my Mosher.

Howard Frank Mosher is an exquisite story teller. His words are worth a thousand pictures. The reality of growing up on a rustic farm in northern Vermont during the 40's & 50's is made charmingly clear. Life on the farm is rough, yet idyllic. Where work is its own reward is a simple truth & the path to an honest existence. The only negative is the story ends!

I became interested in reading this book when The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine featured an article on Mosher. It was a rare instance of my reading a book about which I knew almost nothing. I found it a fascinating portrait. As a lifelong New Englander, I was enthralled by the depiction of a New England that could be a different planet. The two elderly characters are eccentric, demanding, and hilarious. Yet, they are loving grandparents who show their grandson a life he could never have imagined. I am grateful to have discovered Mosher, and would recommend this work to anyone interested in a serious yet rather mad work of fiction.

I picked this book up in the library entirely by chance. I was soon hooked on it. Gentle, fascinating, totally unpredictable, it was a step back into another place and time, full of the most interesting people . . . It is one of those books where the reader won't want to read the last chapter because then it will be over. I read several chapters to my children as individual stories, and they were enchanted. The entire book wove a spell over me.

Northern Borders is a trip to another time and another place, where a youngster deals with his eccentric relatives and the consequences of a family who have lived life on that land for generations. Without sentimentality, without hackneyed characterization, Mosher depicts a time and place so vividly you can't bear that the book must end. I read very widely and this is one of the best novels I've encountered in years. A quiet little gem

Mosher, a chronicler of life in extreme northern Vermont, has crafted a delightful coming of age novel with "Northern Borders." Wistful for a time forever passed and whimsical with it diverse cast of characters, it focuses on the adventures of Austen Kittredge III during the post-World War II years as he goes from childhood to maturity in Lost Nation, a fictional township in Kingdom County, a locale that Mosher explores in several books. Highly recommended for all readers.

All of Howard Frank Mosher's books are good, but this one is a truly excellent read. Like the man himself, his characters are crafted like a sharp hard cider distilled from the backwoods of Vermont. Usually several years in the making, his books do take awhile to ferment, but when they reach peak potency -- finish the whole jug in one long Northeast Kingdom night. It will keep you warm and, thankfully, the only hangover is the need to quickly share your copy with your spouse or best friend so you can talk about it. Vermont hasn't had an ambassador this genuine since Robert Frost. And for those who want to understand the soul of this land of cruel June frosts, Mosher's still around to bare his.