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-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. It is also as violent and
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."
"From the Hardcover edition."
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