Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an nervous twelve-year-ancient boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-ancient 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 tale 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 leader’s particular voice—the unique voice of an accomplished storyteller.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: A long, tasty trip to the land of Irving is hands-down the best way to start the month of October. A trio of tragic events (though the prize for most hell-shocking goes to the third) exiles widower and camp cook Dominic Baciagalupo and his son Danny from a mid-century logging station called Twisted River. They place behind the Bunyan-esque lumberjack Ketchum–a gruff, eccentric, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee–who remains their sole tie to the past. What’s next neither father nor son knows: their rootless being moves swiftly in and out of New England, tied ostensibly to jobs for Dominic and schools for Danny, but it seems one foot is permanently back in persons New Hampshire woods. Theirs is a restless, richly experimental journey, crowned by a reckoning no one could predict. Few writers can match John Irving’s knack for denouement, and in Last Night in Twisted River, his extraordinary ending is made all the more powerful by a tale that feasts on language, life, and like. –Anne Bartholomew
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Tell me what I am missing. I did not like this book. Did Kurt V. write it? The style is so close. For such a excellent looking, America hating man, I hope he will delight in his equally America hating Canada. Maybe I should have read some of his previous books but I am not into abortion… but, I am into bears.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have been expecting it for some time now. Hasn’t John Irving been around for a reasonably a long time?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I didn’t like this book at the start. Irving goes round and round to tell his tale, but as I read more, I got involved with it. I was liking it up to the point where the leader ongoing bashing George Bush. If I wanted to read more bashing, I would just pick up any newspaper. It is unfair to people who buy this book to listen to characters malign the previous president. I expect this animosity from liberal columnists, but I don’t appreciate it in my fiction reading. If you have any respect for any president we’ve ever elected to office, don’t buy this book. If for no additional reason than our elected presidents deserve respect. I won’t ever buy another Irving book. Who knows who he’ll bash the next time.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
And I have permanently loved his work….very glad that I borrowed from the library as a replacement for of bought!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I really loved this classic Irving tale, right up until the last 100 or so pages when I place it down. Why do fiction writers reflect its necessary to theme us to their political diatribes one way or the additional in the middle of an otherwise excellent tale? Current events as a back drop to a tale is fantastic to add perspective and understanding of what shapes characters and their lives. Politics in this tale, up until Ketchum’s death were just that. To have it then consume page after page of specifics of Bush decisions about war, etc was a huge distraction and pulled me out of the tale that had kept me up until 3am the night before reading about these people that I cared so much about. Talk about a wet rag. What a waste. Now when I reflect of John Irving, one of my favorite novelists, I’ll picture him along side Sean Penn and additional artists that somehow reflect we care about their opinion of politics as much as we delight in their craft. No thanks.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5