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Last Night in Twisted River
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Last Night in Twisted River (2009) (edit title/settings)

by John Irving (Author) (edit contributors)

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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,... read more

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  • “Constipated Christ!”
    Ketchum
  • “"We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly - as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”
  • “In telling the story to his son, Dominic Baciagalupo usually added: "I would never hit a bear with a cast-iron skillet-I thought it was a man!""but what would you do with a bear? Danny asked his dad."Try to reason with it, I guess," the cook replied. "In that sort of situation, you can't reason with a man"”
    Dominic Baciagalupo
  • “I became a member of a family I was unrelated to-long before I knew nearly enough about my own family, or the dilemma my father had faced in my early childhood.”
    Danny
  • “One day, the writer would recognize the near simultaneity of connected but dissimilar momentous events-these are what move a story forward-but at the moment Danny lost consciousness in Carmella's sweet-smelling arms, the exhausted boy had merely ben thinking: How coincidental is this? (He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there wer no coincidence.)”
    Danny
  • “Tony Angel was trying to forget the image of the m onkfish swimming through sesame oil, and everything else that was afloat in the back of the truck.”
    Tony Angel (Danny's father with a new name)
  • “We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”
    Danny
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  • We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly—as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth—the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.
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  • CHAPTER 3. A WORLD OF ACCIDENTS
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  • CHAPTER 4. THE EIGHT-INCH CAST-IRON SKILLET II.
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  • Samuel Johnson’s oft-quoted “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
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  • OH, PLANS, PLANS, PLANS—how we make plans into the future, as if the future will most certainly be there!
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  • wanigans themselves were disappearing; those curious shelters for sleeping and eating and storing equipment had not only been mounted on trucks, on wheels, or on crawler tracks, but they were often attached to rafts or boats.
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  • malefactresses pang bosom embroidered writhing ignominious matronly tremulous punishment salvation plaintive wailings possessed misbegotten sinless innermost retribution paramour besmirches hideous And these
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  • It was not necessarily what Ketchum might have said about the war in Iraq, or the never-ending mess in the Middle East, that particularly interested Danny or Six-Pack. It was what Ketchum would have said about anything. It was the old logger’s voice that Danny and Six-Pack wanted to hear. Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
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  • logorrhea had possessed his son. That Daniel was coming to dinner at Avellino alone was fine with Tony Angel, but that his son was alone (and probably would remain so) made the cook cry. If he worried about his grandson, Joe—for all the obvious dangers any eighteen-year-old needed to be lucky to escape—the cook was sorry that his son, Daniel, struck him as a terminally lonely, melancholic soul. He’s even lonelier and more melancholic than I am! Tony Angel was thinking.
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  • “malefactresses,” Ketchum had known some. (Six-Pack Pam among them!) Regarding the “paramour,” Dominic Baciagalupo was more of an authority than he wanted to be—the hell with what Ketchum made of the word! And considering “whippingpost” and “writhing”—not to mention “wailings,”
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First Sentence edit see section history

The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I. Coos County, New Hampshire, 1954
1. Under The Logs
2. Do-Si-Do
3. A World Of Accidents
4. The Eight-Inch Cast-Iron Skillet

II. Boston, 1967
5. Nom De Plume
6. In Medias Res

III. Windham County, Vermont, 1983
7. Benevento And Avellino
8. Dead Dog; Remembering Mao's
9. The Fragile, Unpredictable Nature Of Things
10. Lady Sky
11. Honey

IV. Toronto, 2000
12. The Blue Mustang
13. Kisses Of Wolves

V. Coos County, New Hampshire, 2001
14. Ketchum's Left Hand
15. Moose Dancing

VI. Pointe Au Baril Station, Ontario, 2005
16. Lost Nation
17. Ketchum Excepted

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This book is in Rainy Day Books (12 Best Books of 2009). (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. John Irving (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Nicolette Hoekmeijer (Translator)
  2. Molly van Gelder (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780345479730
Page Count: 565

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  • Library of Congress: PS3559.R8 L37 2010
  • Dewey: 813.54

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