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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Publication date
October 27, 2009
Pages
860
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375435287
ISBN-10
037543528X
Dimensions
1.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
2.75 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$28.00
Other format details
large print
§As reported by publisher
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Avenue of Mysteries | Avenue of Mysteries | In One Person | A Son of the Circus | Until I Find You | A Prayer for Owen Meany | The Fourth Hand | The Hotel New Hampshire | The Imaginary Girlfriend | The Imaginary Girlfriend
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constableâs girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos Countyâto Boston, to southern Vermont, to Torontoâpursued 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 RiverâJohn Irvingâs twelfth novelâdepicts the recent half-century in the United States as âa living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.â From the novelâs taut opening sentenceââThe young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too longââto 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 Irvingâs breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.
What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the authorâs unmistakable voiceâthe inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: âWe donât always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanlyâas if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earthâthe same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.â
From the Hardcover edition.
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted RiverâJohn Irvingâs twelfth novelâdepicts the recent half-century in the United States as âa living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.â From the novelâs taut opening sentenceââThe young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too longââto 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 Irvingâs breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.
What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the authorâs unmistakable voiceâthe inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: âWe donât always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanlyâas if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earthâthe same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.â
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Random House Inc (October 27, 2009)
9781400063840 | details & prices | 554 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.94 lbs | List price $28.00
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (June 15, 2010)
9780345479730 | details & prices | 565 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.92 lbs | List price $17.00
Reprint edition from Random House (June 15, 2010)
9780345523778 | details & prices | 585 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $7.99
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Random House Large Print (October 27, 2009)
9780375435287 | details & prices | 860 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.75 in. | 2.75 lbs | List price $28.00
About: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constableâs girlfriend for a bear.
About: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constableâs girlfriend for a bear.
CD/Spoken Word
With Arthur Morey (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (October 27, 2009)
9780739320327 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.25 × 2.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $60.00
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