LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER - Ballantine

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 Country-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 depicts the recent half-century in the United States as 'a livingreplica of Coos Century, where lethal hatreds were generally permited to run their course'.What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistaklable voice-the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.