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Book SynopsisJohn Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning it in 1980 for
The World According to Garp. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for
The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations.
Last Night in Twisted River is his twelfth novel.
Trade ReviewLast Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction * Observer *
Irving fans will relish this action-packed tale of father-and-son runaways * The Sunday Times *
The most poetic and powerful of Irving's work to date * Independent on Sunday *
Last Night in Twisted River is a big, old-fashioned novel in the best sense; Irving has created in painstaking, loving detail a whole and complete world, a record of momentous social changes, but, above all a testament to the enduring power of love and fiction * Observer *
Nothing less than show-stopping * Guardian *
