Last Night In Twisted River

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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging & 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 & 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 & emotional authority of The Cider House Rules & A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent & disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice
- the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: ' We don't 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'.