Last Night in Twisted River
by John Irving
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780375435287
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"In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable' s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County - to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto - pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving' s twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course. From the novel' s taut opening sentence - The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long - to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving' s breakthrough bestseller, Th
| ISBN-13 | 9780375435287 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 037543528X |
| Weight | 2.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.20 x 1.80 x 9.20 In |
| List Price | $28.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 880 pages |
| Publisher | Random House Large Print |
| Published On | 2009-10-27 |
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