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Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
9781400063840

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400063841
ISBN-13
9781400063840
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71949378

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Night in Twisted River
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Irving
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
30.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in

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LCCN
2009-014449
Reviews
"Absolutely unmissable . . . [A] big-hearted, brilliantly written and superbly realized intergenerational tale of a father and son."- Financial Times "Engrossing . . . Irving's sentences and paragraphs are assembled with the skill and attention to detail of a master craftsman creating a dazzling piece of jewelry from hundreds of tiny, bright stones."- Houston Chronicle "There's plenty of evidence in Irving's agility as a writer in Last Night in Twisted River. . . . some of the comic moments are among the most memorable that Irving has written."- New York Times "A rich and evocative story."- Washington Post From the Trade Paperback edition., "Absolutely unmissable . . . [A] big-hearted, brilliantly written and superbly realized intergenerational tale of a father and son."- Financial Times   "Engrossing . . . Irving's sentences and paragraphs are assembled with the skill and attention to detail of a master craftsman creating a dazzling piece of jewelry from hundreds of tiny, bright stones."- Houston Chronicle "There's plenty of evidence in Irving's agility as a writer in Last Night in Twisted River. . . . some of the comic moments are among the most memorable that Irving has written."- New York Times "A rich and evocative story."- Washington Post From the Trade Paperback edition., "Absolutely unmissable . . . [A] big-hearted, brilliantly written and superbly realized intergenerational tale of a father and son."- Financial Times   "Engrossing . . . Irving's sentences and paragraphs are assembled with the skill and attention to detail of a master craftsman creating a dazzling piece of jewelry from hundreds of tiny, bright stones."- Houston Chronicle "There's plenty of evidence in Irving's agility as a writer in Last Night in Twisted River. . . . some of the comic moments are among the most memorable that Irving has written."- New York Times "A rich and evocative story."- Washington Post
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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 Countyto Boston, to southern Vermont, to Torontopursued 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 John Irving's twelfth noveldepicts 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." 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, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voicethe inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: "We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanlyas if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earththe same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives."
LC Classification Number
PS3559.R8L37 2009

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  • by runningman
    25 Sep, 2018

    If you aren't a John Irving fan, pass on it.

    While not a good a Owen Meany, Garp or Cyder House, if you love John Irving, I would recommend it. Otherwise, try Richard Flanagan (terrific writer).

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