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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
A repeat bargain (I think), Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving is $2.99 at Amazon. I haven't read this one yet, but Irving is a terrific writer.
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 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.” What further distinguishes*Last Night in Twisted River*is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. |
Just a heads up to the voice in your head: Coos has two syllables. If you knew that, never mind!