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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.
This is a story that spans five decades, and is John Irving’s twelfth novel.
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.
This is a story that spans five decades, and is John Irving’s twelfth novel.
| Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving Random House, NY 2009 |
