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In 1954, in the cookhouse of the sawmill and recording settlement in northern New Hampshire, a nervous twelve-year-old child errors the neighborhood constable’s partner to get a bear. Both twelve-year-old and his dad become fugitives, compelled to operate from Coos County—to Ma, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their single guard is just a very libertarian logger, once they are befriended by a river driver, who. In a tale spanning five years, Last Night in Twisted River represents the current half century in america as “a dwelling reproduction of Coos County, where life-threatening hatreds were usually allowed to operate their course.” What further separates Last Night in Twisted River may be the author’s unique voice—the inimitable style of an accomplished storyteller.