2012

November, 2009

There are those authors who > seem compelled to venture back j upstream, to explore the same ' tributaries, to endlessly test the roiling crosscurrents of their own fiction and memory. This sense of revisionist adventurism is both subject and subtext in John Irving's epic 12th novel, Lost Night in Twisted River. This particular journey gets off to a thrilling start with a vigorous burst of storytell­ing at a New Hampshire logging camp, then ranges from Boston to Iowa to Canada before finally set...