Last Night in Twisted River

Irving, J.

ISBN 10: 1408801841 / ISBN 13: 9781408801840

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2009

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1st UK and true 1st. Pristine copy in mylar-protected dj.

Seller Inventory # 000577

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Night in Twisted River
• Publisher: Bloomsbury, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408801841
• ISBN 13: 9781408801840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern and a Few Not So Modern Firsts

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Synopsis

Book by Irving, John

Review

Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: A long, delicious trip to the land of Irving is hands-down the best way to begin the month of October. A trio of tragic events (though the prize for most hell-shocking goes to the third) exiles widower and camp cook Dominic Baciagalupo and his son Danny from a mid-century logging outpost called Twisted River. They leave behind the Bunyan-esque lumberjack Ketchum--a gruff, eccentric, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee--who remains their sole connection to the past. What's next neither father nor son knows: their rootless existence moves swiftly in and out of New England, tied ostensibly to jobs for Dominic and schools for Danny, but it seems one foot is always back in those New Hampshire woods. Theirs is a restless, richly observed journey, crowned by a reckoning no one could predict. Few writers can match John Irving's knack for denouement, and in Last Night in Twisted River, his extraordinary ending is made all the more powerful by a story that feasts on language, life, and love. --Anne Bartholomew