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20%OFFJohn Irving - Last Night in Twisted River - 9780552776578 - V9780552776578
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Last Night in Twisted River

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Description for Last Night in Twisted River Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.

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.'

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552776578
SKU
V9780552776578
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About John Irving
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning it in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. ... Read more

Reviews for Last Night in Twisted River
Last Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction
Observer
Irving fans will relish this action-packed tale of father-and-son runaways
The ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Last Night in Twisted River


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