g.dk

Samlet vurdering:

(0 i alt)

Hvad synes du?
Log ind for at give din vurdering

John Irving

Last Night in Twisted River

SPAR kr. 170,- i forhold til vores normalpris

PRIS kr. 220,00 Leveres normalt indenfor 2 til 14 hverdage.	Antal Læg i kurv

Gemt på Min huskeseddel Kunne ikke tilføjes Min huskeseddel Tilføj Min huskeseddel

Om bogen

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. In 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 living replica of Coos County, 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, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice - the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: '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'.

Om bogen

1. udgave
Hardback , 576 sider
ISBN: 9781408801840
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2009

Andre bøger af John Irving