{"product_id":"last-night-in-twisted-riverbooks","title":"Last Night in Twisted River","description":"From the author of \u003cb\u003eA Widow for One Year\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eA Prayer for Owen Meany\u003c\/b\u003e and other acclaimed novels, comes a story of a father and a son - fugitives in 20th-century North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \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 world \"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, what distinguishes \u003cb\u003eLast Night in Twisted River\u003c\/b\u003e is the author's unmistakable voice, the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.","brand":"Irving, John","offers":[{"title":"Hardback \/Adult Fiction","offer_id":47628470255840,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47742977081568,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5a71161a-8b48-4b99-8ab8-2c82c46a60f2.jpg?v=1754143548","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/last-night-in-twisted-riverbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}