Last night in twisted river.
Last night in twisted river.
By
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Irving, John, 1942-
Publication Date
:
2009
Subject Term
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Psychological fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Summary
:
“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long.” So begins John Irving’s twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River. 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.”
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780307398369
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