Last night in Twisted river - John Irving
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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 halfcentury 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 more than fifteen, had hesitated too long to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River iswritten with the historical authenticity andemotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It isalso as violent and disturbi...
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2009Uitgever: Bezige Bij554 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 239x161x51ISBN-10: 9023455800ISBN-13: 9789023455806Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2009, hardcover, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: John Irving] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: De Bezige Bij] [Jaar: 2009] [Titel: Last night in twisted river]
