Last Night In Twisted River, John Irving games & puzzles of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming

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Last Night In Twisted River, John Irving games & puzzles of marvellous intricacy and overwhelmingIn 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve year old boy mistakes the local constables girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve year old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos Countyto Boston, to southern Vermont, to Torontopursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning