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Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Last Night in Twisted River about?
From the author of A Widow for One Year , A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the 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 world "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, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River ...
Who reads Last Night in Twisted River?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (288 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14