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 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 general…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-345-52377-8
- EAN: 9780345523778
- Produktnummer: 5693927
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B10.8 cm x D2.7 cm 296 g
- Gewicht: 296
Über den Autor
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.
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