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Last Night in Twisted River
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780552776578
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $32.99

Last Night in Twisted River

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A breathtaking story of a father and a son in 20th-century North America from the award-winning author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.

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 to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780552776578
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

John Irving

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times – winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he 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. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com
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In One Person
Until I Find You
The Fourth Hand
A Widow For One Year
Setting Free The Bears
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Praise for Last Night in Twisted River

Last Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction

Observer

A page-turner in the smartest possible sense, written with the historical authenticity and taut command of language that has established Irving as one of America's greatest living novelists

GQ

The most poetic and powerful of Irving's work to date

Independent on Sunday

Last Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction

Observer

Irving fans will relish this action-packed tale of father-and-son runaways

The Sunday Times

Nothing less than show-stopping

Guardian