12 - Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving, 554 Pages, Random House Vintage Canada, 2009
WHY I PICKED IT: I've read everything by John Irving
ELAPSED TIME: 5 days
RATING: Good
John Irving is an interesting novelist... Here is an author who is so repetitive in introducing some autobiographical details, that Wikipedia has a table of his books and those details... and this book has all but one of them: New England (Check), Prostitutes (Check), Wrestling (Check), Vienna (No), Bears (Check), Deadly Accident (Check), Absent Parent (Check), Film Making (Check), Writers (Check), and Sexual Variation (Check).
As a story, this one was good. A boy accidentally kills the girlfriend of a local constable (thinking that she's a bear) and goes on the run with his father... The story lasts the next 50 years.
I only recommend this if you are a John Irving fan... otherwise, there is a lot of better stuff out there to read :)
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