Last Night in Twisted River

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by John Irving

Genre: Literature

Published: 2009

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Irving's *In One Person.*

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 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.” What further distinguishes** Last Night in Twisted River** is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

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