{"product_id":"last-night-in-twisted-river","title":"Last Night in Twisted River","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of A Widow for One Year, A Prayer for Owen Meany and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a world \"where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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, what distinguishes \u003cem\u003eLast Night in Twisted River\u003c\/em\u003e is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43340868976840,"sku":"BKHC1010272","price":16.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/2034\/0168\/files\/best1510935000.0.x.jpg?v=1710843846","url":"https:\/\/theblossomingbookshop.com\/products\/last-night-in-twisted-river","provider":"The Blossoming Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}