Irving, John, 1942-

Last night in twisted river : a novel John Irving. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2009. - xii, 554 p. ; 25 cm.

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. A tale that spans five decades.

9781400063840

2009014449


Teenage boys--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Fugitives from justice--Fiction.
Loggers--Fiction.


Coos County (N.H.)--Fiction.

PS3559.R8 / L37 2009

813/.54