sexta-feira, 16 de outubro de 2009

Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving


Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

A long, delicious trip to the land of Irving is hands-down the best way to begin the month of October (or end it). A trio of tragic events--though the prize for most hell-shocking goes to the third--exiles widower and camp cook Dominic Baciagalupo and his son Danny from a mid-century logging outpost called Twisted River. They leave behind the Bunyan-esque lumberjack Ketchum--a gruff, eccentric, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee--who remains their sole connection to the past. What's next neither father nor son knows: their rootless existence moves swiftly in and out of New England, tied ostensibly to jobs for Dominic and schools for Danny, but it seems one foot is always back in those New Hampshire woods. Theirs is a restless, richly observed journey, crowned by a reckoning no one could predict. Few writers can match John Irving's knack for denouement, and in Last Night in Twisted River, his extraordinary ending is made all the more powerful by a story that feasts on language, life, and love. – Anne Bartholomew

Recommended for John Irving fans and fence-sitters alike, with special consideration to those who countGarp and Owen among their favorites

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