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Last Night in Twisted River

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“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long.” So begins John Irving’s twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River. 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 wife 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. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.”

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Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving

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Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Vintage Canada
Rok vydania
2010
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
592
ISBN10
0307398374
ISBN13
9780307398376
Série
Prvé vydanie
2009
Pôvodný názov
Last Night in Twisted River
Hodnotenie
3,75 z 5
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“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long.” So begins John Irving’s twelfth novel, Last Night in Twisted River. 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 wife 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. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.”