Last Night in Twisted River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345479730)

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.

Author: John Irving
ISBN-10: 0345479734
ISBN-13: 9780345479730
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2010
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 1.26d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 34
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 134249 / Last Night in Twisted River


Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 06/27/2010 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 07/09/2010 pg. 81

About the Author
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules--a film with seven Academy Award nominations.