Last Night in Twisted River

Last Night in Twisted RiverIn 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 06/15/2010
ISBN: 9780345479730
Pages: 565
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 1.26d

Review Citations: New York Review of Books 06/27/2010 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 07/09/2010 pg. 81

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 134249 / Last Night in Twisted River
Reading Level: 7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 34