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Original Title:	Last Night in Twisted River
ISBN:	1400063841 (ISBN13: 9781400063840)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New Hampshire(United States) Boston, Massachusetts(United States) Pennsylvania(United States) …more Toronto, Ontario(Canada) …less

Last Night in Twisted River

John Irving

Hardcover | Pages: 554 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 23580 Users | 2832 Reviews

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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–John Irving’s twelfth novel–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.” 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 voice–the 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 cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”

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Title	:	Last Night in Twisted River
Author	:	John Irving
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 554 pages
Published	:	October 27th 2009 by Random House (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Historical. Historical Fiction

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I have read only one novel by John Irving - The World According to Garp - many years ago, and although I enjoyed it I never read anything else by him - for some inexplicable reason, since Irving writes the sort of fiction that I definitely enjoy: big, long novels with a large cast of characters and several different main players. These stories take years and go through generations, allowing the reader to (ideally) know these people inside and out and care about them - most of all enjoy the novel

If you're a fan of John Irving, there's a good chance you'll love this book: it's filled with his favourite motifs and themes-bears, wrestling, flatulent dogs, severed body parts, outsiders, and long digressions. I particularly enjoyed the first section which deals with the lumberjack life in Northern New Hampshire. As a writer, I was also fascinated by one character's reflections on writing and the writing life-there is a wealth of wisdom to be learned here. This character's career mirrors

Irving did not disappoint. All the familiar touchstones are here - bears, wrestling, New Hampshire prep school, Iowa writer's College, breasts, dead young men, overly-protective fathers - yet it's all new. Irving references himself and his critics throughout the book. The story is a lovely story of 3 men covering 50 years of their lives. The melancholy, for me, came not only from the story, but from the sense I got throughout that Irving was saying goodbye. I hope not - he's possibly my favorite

For me, Irving writes books as Beethoven wrote music -- in a minor key. The books are supposedly comedies. They are not to me. They are melancholy reflections on the lives we all lead -- the loves, the misses, the lives, the deaths, the greatest fears, the surprises, the essential ingredients for storytelling -- the bears.This book hits all the Irving themes. This time he adds homages to the late Kurt Vonnegut, by name, as well as other authors. He adds homages to grammar; he especially honors

I had such high hopes for this book. I thought to myself in the beginning.... "Hey, John Irving is finally BACK as a great American writer!" Unfortunately, little by little, the wheels started to come off the bus, and I found myself trudging through another story that was growing more tedious and dull with every page. The characters that started out so promising, evolved into flat, lifeless souls. And why does Irving always have to throw the sport of wrestling into the mix??? Sadly, John Irving



I am a lifelong fan of John Irving and as such was thrilled to see this book on the shelves. He's not exactly prolific so I look at a new Irving book as a special treat. As B.B. King said, "the thrill is gone." I was quite disappointed in this book. While it was an enjoyable read for the most part, the plot meanders and not a lot actually happens. Ostensibly the story is about people running from their past but only rarely does it come close to catching up to them until the end which you see