Record Number |
602236 |
ISBN |
9781408802144 |
1408802147 1400063841 (hbk.) |
9781400063840 (hbk.) |
Author |
Irving, John, 1942- |
Title |
Last Night in Twisted River / a novel / John Irving. |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher/Date |
New York : Random House, 2009. |
Pagination etc. |
xii, 554 p. ; 25 cm. |
Contents note |
Coos County, New Hampshire, 1954 -- Under the logs -- Do-si-do -- A world of accidents -- The eight-inch cast iron skillet -- Boston, 1967 -- Nom de plume -- In media res -- Windham County, Vermont, 1983 -- Benevento and Avellino -- Dead dogs, remembering Mao's -- The fragile, unpredictable, nature of things -- Lady sky -- Honey -- Toronto, 2000 -- The blue mustang -- Kisses of wolves -- Coos County, New Hampshire, 2001 -- Ketchum's left hand -- Moose dancing -- Pointe au Baril Station, Ontario, 2005 -- Lost nation -- Ketchum excepted. |
Summary Note |
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. A tale that spans five decades. |
Subject |
Teenage boys -- Fiction |
Fathers and sons -- Fiction |
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction |
Loggers -- Fiction |
Coos County (N.H.) -- Fiction |
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction |
Vermont -- Fiction |
Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction |
Shelf Location |
F IRVI |