Last night in Twisted River
Title:
Last night in Twisted River
Author:
Irving, John, 1942-
ISBN:
9781408801840
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Physical Description:
554 p. ; 24 cm
Abstract:
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.
Geographic Term:
Subject:
| Teenage boys -- Fiction. |
| Fathers and sons -- Fiction. |
| Loggers -- Fiction. |
| Fugitives from justice -- Fiction. |
| Coos County (N.H.) -- Fiction. |
Summary:
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.