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When asked by his editor what words best encapsulated his latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River, beloved author John Irving pointed her to a passage towards the end of book:
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.
A masterful storyteller, John Irving's voice is unmistakable as is his ability to illuminate our understanding of the human experience. The novel begins in 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, where 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, and to Toronto, pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story "Interior Space." In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules—a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Last Night in Twisted River on sale on October 27th is Irving's twelfth novel and is written with the same historical accuracy and emotional authority of some of his most famous novels: The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Widow for One Year, and The World According to Garp, all of which are published by the Modern Library.
To learn about all of John Irving's novels, read an exclusive introduction to his latest novel, and watch a new video interview, visit his brand new website. We suggest taking the website's poll to vote for your favorite John Irving novel.
Tolle Lege,
John J. Flicker, Executive Editor
Modern Library
Random House
Modernlibrary@randomhouse.com
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