Last Night in Twisted River A Novel
eAudio - 2009
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–“Th...e 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...
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File Size | 706 GB |
Parts | 20 |
ISBN | 9781415965771 |
Release Date | 10/27/2009 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 705 GB |
ISBN | 9781415965771 |
Release Date | 10/27/2009 |