false 76955173 1014845 6323821 1400063841 9781400063840 174 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255597935m/6323821.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255597935s/6323821.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6323821.Last_Night_in_Twisted_River_A_Novel 3.70 349 A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son — fugitives in 20th-century North America.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the 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 world “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, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.]]> 3075 3.86 130206 8926 2009 0 0 false Fri Nov 06 15:45:29 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 15:45:29 -0800 2009