{"product_id":"2940169176957","title":"Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel","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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a story spanning five decades, \u003cb\u003eLast Night in Twisted River\u003c\/b\u003e-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 more than fifteen, had hesitated too long\"-to its elegiac final chapter, \u003cb\u003eLast Night in Twisted River\u003c\/b\u003e is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of \u003cb\u003eThe Cider House Rules\u003c\/b\u003e and A \u003cb\u003ePrayer for Owen Meany.\u003c\/b\u003e It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, \u003cb\u003eThe World According to Garp.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat further distinguishes \u003cb\u003eLast Night in Twisted River\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099765162224,"sku":"2940169176957","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169176957_p0.jpg?v=1763674705","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169176957","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}