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Title
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 Last night in Twisted River : a novel / John Irving.
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Author
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Irving, John, 1942-
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Owning Libraries
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All items
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Edition
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1st ed.
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Publisher
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New York : Random House, c2009.
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Description
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xii, 554 p. ; 25 cm.
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [559]).
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Contents
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Contents: Coos County, New Hampshire, 1954 -- Under the logs -- Do-si-do -- A world of accidents -- The eight-inch cast iron skillet -- Boston, 1967 -- Nom de plume -- In media res -- Windham County, Vermont, 1983 -- Benevento and Avellino -- Dead dogs, remembering Mao’s -- The fragile, unpredictable, nature of things -- Lady sky -- Honey -- Toronto, 2000 -- The blue mustang -- Kisses of wolves -- Coos County, New Hampshire, 2001 -- Ketchum’s left hand -- Moose dancing -- Pointe au Baril Station, Ontario, 2005 -- Lost nation -- Ketchum excepted.
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Summary
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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. A tale that spans five decades.
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
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Loggers -- Fiction.
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Coos County (N.H.) -- Fiction.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Vermont -- Fiction.
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Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.
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ISBN
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9781400063840 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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1400063841 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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