Last Night in Twisted River
By John Irving.
Description
“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 ...
ISBN(s)
0307398374, 9780307398376
