{"product_id":"last-night-in-twisted-river","title":"Last Night in Twisted River","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLast Night in Twisted River\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Irving\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400063840\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e576\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Last Night in Twisted River | John Irving | Hardcover | 9781400063840 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks H 1769851","offer_id":50750780965122,"sku":"1769851","price":22.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91rqB4tiypL.jpg?v=1791979658","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/last-night-in-twisted-river","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}