Last night in Twisted River a novel
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 To...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Last night in Twisted River : |b a novel / |c John Irving. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Random House, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 554 p. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Teenage boys |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fathers and sons |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fugitives from justice |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Loggers |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Boston (Mass.) |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Vermont |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Toronto (Ont.) |v Fiction. | |
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