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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 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.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
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Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
- Language
- Released
- 2010
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- Book condition
- Damaged
- Price
- €2.39
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN10
- 0345479734
- ISBN13
- 9780345479730
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Contemporary Fiction, Love, USA, Murders, American Literature, Death, Literary Fiction, Canada, America, Loss, Escape, Writers, Human Fates, Fathers and Sons, New England, Lumberjacks, Quechuas
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Last Night in Twisted River
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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 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.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.