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Last Night in Twisted River

John Irving

Hardcover | Pages: 554 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 23580 Users | 2832 Reviews

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Title	:	Last Night in Twisted River
Author	:	John Irving
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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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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

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Irving keeps writing the same story over and over again, albeit mixing up the characters and the situations, and though I was looking for the three-peat to top Garp and Owen Meany, I didnt find it in this over-written novel.One could argue that this is Irvings autobiographical novel, for the protagonist, Daniel Baciagalupo, alias Danny Angel (there are a lot of nom-de-plumes in this book as much as there are parenthetical explanations, like this one, within sentencesan Irving hallmark), a

November 2009"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." And how! John Irving, a writer who doesn't shy away from sudden, violent, and often unusual deaths (and really, how else could a mistaken-for-bear incident end?), certainly lives up to his reputation: on the very first page--first sentence, really--a young Canadian logger hesitates too long; the constable's

I don't have the heart to write much of a review for this one but I'm going to write something since I won this in a giveaway and the point of the giveaway is for people to review the books. If you're an Irving fanatic, you should find something to love about this book. There are bears everywhere. And death. And violence. There's running and a few passing references to wrestling. There are bogeymen. And nude people. There are characters who are obsessed over the possibility of losing their loved

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

When I heard the riveting title of John Irvings most recent novel, Last Night in Twisted River, and read a few blurbs describing the subject matter and the characters, I just knew in my heart he had finally written another book worthy of being placed next to his early masterpieces on the bookshelf of honor. I just knew I would feel the same rush of excitement I felt when I was introduced to Owen Meany or T.S. Garp, or Dr. Larch or even Susie the Bear, and first entered their strange and

Update: This is $2.99 Kindle special today... personally I think its one of John Irvings best ...I just notice my old review. A sentence!!!Life was so much more simple here on Goodreads back then.... perhaps I should take a lesson. GREAT BOOK!!! This story was great from the first page to the last sentence of the book. I loved it!I'm just waiting for John Irving's NEW RELEASE! :)

Irving is a genius. I state that upfront to make it clear where my review is coming from. No, Last Night in Twisted River is not his finest work. But even coming in at average, Irving outguns almost everyone else out there. And when I consider all the books I have given four stars to that don't even begin to compare to this one, I wish I could add another star on the scale, just to capture my feelings for Irving's greater works (Garp and Owen Meany come to mind). This book contains all of the