Last Night in Twisted River

Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book spans 50+ years, New Hampshire, Putney, Vermont, Windham College, Iowa, Boston and Toronto --  it is about tragedy, violence, food, and fatherhood.  It is also full of redundant writing and who the hell cares politics.

The reader of the audio book is excellent.  Irving's character development is excellent.  Waiting for everyone in the book to die, be killed or perish is all Irving.

The middle portion of the book took place in Putney Vermont while the protagionst, Danny Angel, was teaching at Windham College and writing a novel.  Like a lot of Irving's work, he pulls from his experiences.  Neither Windham or Putney come well in the book--and it was a necessary read for me because I attended Windham and Irving was one of my professors.  It was fascinating to read what he thought about it.  Truth or not.

This book was long and repetitive but a good read.