LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER

Book ID/图书代码： 06580008B29315

English Summary/英文概要： The incredible new novel from John Irving, reminiscent of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany

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’.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1954年，厨师多米尼克和儿子丹尼在伐木营工作。一天晚上，当厨师与身形魁梧的印第安女人简摸黑做爱时，他的儿子、少不经事的丹尼误闯进来，听到激烈的床板声和呻吟声，以为父亲遭到熊的袭击，于是用铁锅狠狠地打了“熊”，简意外身亡。父子二人被迫踏上了逃亡之路。简的情人警官卡尔开始长年不辍地追查他们的下落。

他们被迫从库斯县逃到了波士顿、佛蒙特州南部，甚至到了加拿大的多伦多--心怀仇恨的卡尔一直穷追不舍。他们唯一的保护者，是一位从事过圆木漂流的伐木工人凯彻姆，他给这对父子提供了无私的帮助。

小说的故事情节横跨五十年，带有强烈的自传色彩，是约翰·欧文的最新作品，反映了美国社会半个世纪的变迁。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：“欧文讲故事的技巧令人印象深刻。”——《纽约客》

“如果你欣赏雄心勃勃、混沌无序、靠情节和人物性格推进的叙事，那你就会爱上这本书……欧文创作出了又一个枝蔓横生、情调感伤、令人动情的故事，不论读者的品位是阳春白雪还是下里巴人，他们都渴望读到这样的故事。”——《娱乐周刊》

约翰·欧文是美国最重要的幽默作家。——冯内特

至今尚在人世的作家当中，几乎没有一个比得上欧文。——华盛顿邮报《书的世界》

‘Irving’s novels are not just page-turners. Time and again, he forces his readers to consider important social issues – war, rape, incest, the fragmentation of the family, feminism, the culture of celebrity – in a way reminiscent of Dickens … Irving is peerless at presenting action, writing without a wasted second’---Guardian

‘The precision of Irving’s voice, the raw urgency of his style, his sly interweaving of magic and mischief are all so resoundingly present, that one barely notices just how much they are there’---Daily Express

‘John Irving has been compared with Kurt Vonnegut and J.D. Salinger, but is arguably more inventive than either. Wry, laconic, he sketches his characters with an economy that springs from a feeling for words and mastery over his craft’---The Times

‘What [Irving] does better than anyone … is create memorable characters. No-one is too incidental to warrant Irving’s full attention. Every minor character is as well developed as a major one and detail is his trademark’---Mirror

About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰·欧文（J·hn Irving），被美国文坛泰斗冯内古特喻为"美国最重要的幽默作家"，是当代最知名的小说家之一，他作品中所呈现的高超的说故事技巧与优美的文学性，使人们常将他与狄更斯和J. D. 塞林格等重量级小说家相提并论。他的小说不仅赢得书评界的一致推崇，而且叫好又叫座，是西方最畅销的小说家之一。

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a ’grim’ child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that he received encouragement. ’It was so simple,’ he remembers. ’Yount was the first person to point out that anything I did except writing was going to be vaguely unsatisfying.’
In 1963, Irving enrolled at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, and he later worked as a university lecturer. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, about a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo, was followed by The Water-Method Man, a comic tale of a man with a urinary complaint, and The 158-Pound Marriage, which exposes the complications of spouse-swapping. Irving achieved international recognition with The World According to Garp, which he hoped would ’cause a few smiles among the tough-minded and break a few softer hearts’.
The Hotel New Hampshire is a startlingly original family saga, and The Cider House Rules is the story of Doctor Wilbur Larch - saint, obstetrician, founder of an orphanage, ether addict and abortionist - and of his favourite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. A Prayer for Owen Meany features the most unforgettable character Irving has yet created. A Son of the Circus is an extraordinary evocation of modern day India. John Irving’s latest and most ambitious novel is A Widow for One Year.
A collection of John Irving’s shorter writing, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed, was published in 1993. Irving has also written the screenplays for The Cider House Rules and A Son of the Circus, and wrote about his experiences in the world of movies in his memoir My Movie Business.
Irving has had a life-long passion for wrestling, and he plays a wrestling referee in the film of The World According to Garp. In his memoir, The Imaginary Girlfriend, John Irving writes about his life as a wrestler, a novelist and as a wrestling coach. He now writes full-time, has three children and lives in Vermont and Toronto.

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