Last Night in Twisted River (John Irving)

Category :  Novel

English

Format :  paperback

565 pages

ISBN 13 :  978-0-307-39837-6

Publisher :  Vintage Canada 2010

Dimension :  203x130x33mm

Weight :  424g

Condition :  fine

Book Summary : 

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 wife 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.