From the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the 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 world 'where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.' From the novel's taut opening sentence - 'The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long.' - to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the 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 world 'where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.' From the novel's taut opening sentence - 'The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long.' - to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
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Hardback Editions
October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 1-4000-6384-1 / 978-1-4000-6384-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2009 : Hardback
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October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 1-4088-0184-1 / 978-1-4088-0184-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 1-4088-0237-6 / 978-1-4088-0237-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 0-307-39836-6 / 978-0-307-39836-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 0-345-47973-4 / 978-0-345-47973-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 0-375-43528-X / 978-0-375-43528-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Large Print Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 1-4088-0214-7 / 978-1-4088-0214-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
October 2009 : Audio CD
| Title: Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel Author(s): John Irving ISBN: 0-7393-2032-7 / 978-0-7393-2032-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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