Last Night in Twisted River
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill setttlement in northern new hampshire, an anxious twelve-year -old boy mistakes the local Constable"s Girlfried for a Bear. Both The Twelve-Year-Lod and His Father Becum Fugitives, Forced to Run from Coos County-to Boston, To Southern Vermont, To Toronto-Pursable 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. IS ALSO AS VIOLENT AND DISTURBING AS JOHN IRVINGS BREAKTHROUGH BESTSELER, The World According To Garp.
What Further Distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the Author"s Unmistakable Voice-the Inimitable Voice of an Accompliched StoryTeller. Near the End of this Moving Novel, John Irving Writes: "We Donmet Always Have A Choice How We Get to Know One Another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives."
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. IS ALSO AS VIOLENT AND DISTURBING AS JOHN IRVINGS BREAKTHROUGH BESTSELER, The World According To Garp.
What Further Distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the Author"s Unmistakable Voice-the Inimitable Voice of an Accompliched StoryTeller. Near the End of this Moving Novel, John Irving Writes: "We Donmet Always Have A Choice How We Get to Know One Another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives."
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Author:Irving John
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Cover:Soft
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ISBN:9780345523778
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