Last Night in Twisted River
$51.61
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2010
Summary
A breathtaking story of a father and a son in 20th-century North America from the award-winning author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552776578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552776572 |
| Author: | John Irving |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 43mm |
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Irving fans will relish this action-packed tale of father-and-son runaways
Last Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction * Observer *Irving fans will relish this action-packed tale of father-and-son runaways * The Sunday Times *The most poetic and powerful of Irving’s work to date * Independent on Sunday *Last Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction * Observer *Nothing less than show-stopping * Guardian *A page-turner in the smartest possible sense, written with the historical authenticity and taut command of language that has established Irving as one of America’s greatest living novelists * GQ *
About The Author
John Irving
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning it in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. Last Night in Twisted River is his twelfth novel.
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