Howard Frank Mosher And The Classics

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547526547
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern Borders written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618082360
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Year written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vows of celibacy are tested in a Vermont parish with the arrival of a beautiful woman from Montreal to care for ailing Father George Lecoeur. Not just the priest's celibacy either--on the premises is Frank Bennett, a young man about to enter a seminary.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618619030
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Teddy Williams written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eighth birthday of Ethan "E.A". Allen, who lives with his mother and Gran in a Vermont town decades behind the rest of New England, a drifter named Teddy comes into their world, teaching E.A. how to play ball and the secrets of baseball.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683432
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Blythe written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picaresque saga of a young French-Canadian woman in Vermont, available in a new paperback edition

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054752451X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stranger in the Kingdom written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing” (The New York Times). In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town’s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage—and is subsequently murdered—suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town’s accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. “Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher’s tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance . . . [A] big, old-fashioned novel.” —Publishers Weekly “A real mystery in the best and truest sense.”—Lee Smith, The New York Times Book Review A Winner of the New England Book Award

Author : James Robert Saunders
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647856X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics written by James Robert Saunders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville's Billy Budd and Moby-Dick, in terms of humankind's struggle against an ever present evil. A full 33 years after the publication of his first novel, the Vermont author, in Walking to Gatlinburg (2010), examined the polarity between cowardice and honor. In the intervening years, between Disappearances and Gatlinburg, Mosher explored crucial matters such as the disappearing wilderness, industrialization, black male/white female encounters, the necessity of humor, the quest for salvation, and the immortality of romantic love, all issues that he delved into as he staked out a unique terrain within the pantheon of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dreiser, Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and others.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683440
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Rivers Flow North written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again, six tales of Kingdom County, Vermont

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307430863
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing to Safety written by Wallace Stegner and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307450708
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Northern Express written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern New England to late-night walks on the wildest sides of America's largest cities, The Great Northern Express chronicles Mosher's escapades with an astonishing array of erudite bibliophiles, homeless hitchhikers, country crooners and strippers, and aspiring writers of all circumstances. Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun. From coast to coast and border to border, this unforgettable adventure of a top-notch American writer demonstrates that, sometimes, in order to know who we truly are, we must turn the wheel towards home.

Author : Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250069483
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Kingdom written by Howard Frank Mosher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man comes of age—and uncovers his family's deepest secret—in this "epic work of genius" by "the rarest thing in literature: an original." —Howard Norman