Last night in Twisted River : a novel / John Irving.
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. A tale that spans five decades.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400063840
- ISBN: 1400063841
- Physical Description: xii, 554 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2009]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Coos County, New Hampshire, 1954 -- Under the logs -- Do-si-do -- A world of accidents -- The eight-inch cast iron skillet -- Boston, 1967 -- Nom de plume -- In media res -- Windham County, Vermont, 1983 -- Benevento and Avellino -- Dead dogs, remembering Mao's -- The fragile, unpredictable, nature of things -- Lady sky -- Honey -- Toronto, 2000 -- The blue mustang -- Kisses of wolves -- Coos County, New Hampshire, 2001 -- Ketchum's left hand -- Moose dancing -- Pointe au Baril Station, Ontario, 2005 -- Lost nation -- Ketchum excepted.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 7 34 134249.
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- Teenage boys > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Fugitives from justice > Fiction.
Loggers > Fiction.
Coos County (N.H.) > Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) > Fiction.
Vermont > Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Fiction.
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