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Rent Last Night in Twisted River
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $20.00
Pages: 592
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 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." What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
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Reviews
John Irving is one of my favor writers, but Last night in Twisted River is the worst book from him that I read. I got bored since the first CD, I was hopping that when the book get in the second part, the book will get better, I was not able to get warm with any of the characters, I stared jumping CD until I culd not take any more and went to the last CD and It was like I was still in the first CD.