Last Night in Twisted River

Posted on 19 September 2017 by John Irving

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 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 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.What 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. New Read Last Night in Twisted River [ Author ] John Irving [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This is the new John Irving novel and it s something special I ve read a number of the man s novels and I can honestly say that Last Night in Twisted River is like nothing not from him, nor from anyone else I ve read before If you think Irving may have lost his touch think again His heart, his imagination, his ability to tell a creative story with realistic and colorful characters it s all right here John Irving has not lost his touch This is a beautiful, violent, funny, heartbreaki This is the new John Irving novel and it s something special I ve read a number of the man s novels and I can honest...Update This is 2.99 Kindle special today personally I think it s one of John Irving s best I just notice my old review A sentence Life was so muchsimple here on Goodreads back then perhaps I should take a lesson GREAT BOOK Thi...Does anyone else think that this is one of the worst books ever I mean, not even among Irving s Where was the editor This had all the marks of a poor first novel, not the twelfth by what I used to think a first rate novelist Cannot believe I slogged through the entire 550 pp the story could ve been told in 250, tops So much repetition Telling rather than showing One dimensional characters No apparent reasons for their actions at many points Ove...A ludicrous melodrama as twisted as the title crafted into the believable by a master Most of all it s about the consequences of accidents, and dancing A young boy and his father spend their lives as fugitives view spoiler after he accidently kills a woman he d mistaken for a bear hide spoiler The story revolving around 3 male characters, Daniel the main protagonist, his father Dominic a widower and their friend Ketchum, an old time logger who dblow the ball s offanyone who threatens A ludicrous melodrama as twisted as the title crafted into the believable by a master Most of all it s about the consequences of accidents, and dancing A young boy and his father spend their lives as fugitives view spoiler after he accidently kills a woman he d mistaken for a bear hide spoiler The story revolving around 3 male characters, Daniel the main protagonist, his father Dominic a widower and their friend Ketchum, an old time logger who dblow the ball s offanyone who threatens them They re all great butWicked toughKetchum as the profane and unlikely hero is outstanding His literary style is as impressive as ever as wellRural life in the winter months was rugged snow blurred and alcohol fueled, violent and fastPeppered with bizarre love interests, while Daniel s distrust of women borders on terror deep do...I don t have the heart to write much of a review for this one but I m going to write something since I won this in a giveaway and the point of the giveaway is for people to review the books If you re an Irving fanatic, you should find something to love about this book There are bears everywhere And death And violence There s running and a few passing references to wrestling There are bogeymen And nude people There are characters who are obsessed over the possibility of losing their loved I don t have the heart to write much of a review for this one but I m going to write something since I won this in a giveaway and the point of the giveaway is for people to review the books If you re an Irving fanatic, you should find something to ...I am a lifelong fan of John Irving and as such was thrilled to see this book on the shelves He s not exactly prolific so I look at a new Irving book as a special treat As B.B King said, the thrill is gone I was quite disappointed in this book While it was an enjoyable read for the most part, the plot meanders and not a lot actually happens Ostensibly the story is about people running from their past but only rarely does it come close to catching up to them until the end which you see com I am a lifelong fan of John Irving and as such was thrilled to see this book on the shelves He s not exactly prolific so I look at a new Irving book as a special treat As B.B King said, the thrill is gone I was quite disappointed in this book While it was an enjoyable read for the most part, the plot meanders and not a lot actually happens Ostensibly the story is about people running f...Este livro tem um defeito 650 p ginas Devia ter 1300 N o 1950 N o muitas mais.Tudo o resto perfeito Sinopse Numa hist ria que abrange cinco d cadas, A ltima Noite em Twisted River retrata o ltimo meio s culo nos Estados Unidos.Desde ...Since I saw the film The World According to Garp at age eleven I have wondered to myself what exactly did John Irving survive in his past I have waited patiently for nearly thirty years to find out I haven t ever read a single thing about John Irving s personal life because figuring out just what happened to him to make him the type of writer he is has been a huge puzzle for me Being a survivor of a horrific childhood myself, I knew Mr Irving must have suffered eventhan I had, as hi Since I saw the film The Wo...I loved this one as third best among the seven Irving novels I ve read so far after Garp and In One Person It satisfied my taste for his blend of absurd tragedy and sentimentality, larger than life characters rendered as grittily real, and warm hearted evocation of places and communities in New England Worthy themes for me include the impossible task of fathers to protect their sons from the cruel accidents of life and the benefits and negative consequences of a writer treating his own l I loved this one as third best among the seven Irving novels I ve read so far after Garp and In One Person It satisfied my taste for his blend of absurd tragedy and sentimentality, larger than life characters rendered as grittily real, and warm hearted evocation of places and communities in New England Worthy themes for me include the impossible task of fathers to p...I have read only one novel by John Irving The World According to Garp many years ago, and although I enjoyed it I never read anything else by him for some inexplicable reason, since Irving writes the sort of fiction that I definitely enjoy big, long novels with a large cast of characters and several different main players These stories take years and go through generations, allowing the reader to ideally know these people inside and out and care about them most of all enjoy the novel I have read only one novel by John Irving The World According to Garp many years ago, and although I enjoyed it I never read anything else by him for some inexplicable reason, since Irving writes the sort of fiction that I definitely enjoy big, long novels with a large cast of characters and several different main players These stories take years and go through generations, allowing the reader to ideally know these people inside and out and care about them most of all e...

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19 September 2017

John Irving