Last Night in Twisted River (Hardcover)
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: Random House (Oct 27, 2009)
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John Irving begins this saga in a logging camp in New Hampshire in the 50s. The book spans five decades in the lives of the three main characters - the cook at the logging camp, his 12-year-old son, and a libertarian logger who is their friend and protector. Irving develops these characters and three generations of folks who touch their lives. The reader becomes a part of their lives - through good times and bad.- Bonnie
Description
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.