03453cam a2200337 4500 575410936 TxAuBib 20220708120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781415965771 1415965773 7b07478b-ee96-495b-b85c-6b9ead0fd47d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 218692 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib IRVING, JOHN. Last Night in Twisted River [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2009. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 674MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 673MB. HTML: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.<br /> <br /> In a story spanning five decades, <b>Last Night in Twisted River</b>–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, <b>Last Night in Twisted River</b> is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of <b>The Cider House Rules</b> and A <b>Prayer for Owen Meany.</b> It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, <b>The World According to Garp.</b><br /> <br /> What further distinguishes <b>Last Night in Twisted River</b> 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.”. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-08 20:00:03. Morey, Arthur. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/218692-LastNightInTwistedRiver.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/218692-LastNightInTwistedRiver.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7B07478B-EE96-495B-B85C-6B9EAD0FD47D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/218692-LastNightInTwistedRiver.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/218692-LastNightInTwistedRiver.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7B07478B-EE96-495B-B85C-6B9EAD0FD47D&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)