Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Last night in twisted river

Irving, John

Last night in twisted river - New York. Random House. 11/10/2009 - xii, 554 p. ; 25 cm.

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,

9781400063840 (acid-free paper) 1400063841 (acid-free paper)

2009014449


Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
Loggers -- Fiction.

--Coos County (N.H.) -- Fiction.