Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

John Irving is a great American writer, but I think Last Night in Twisted River should have been edited down by about a third. It's almost 600 pages long and some of its ruminations were a little boring. The plot of the novel is more twisted than the eponymous river from which a cook in a logging camp and his twelve-year-old son are forced into flight because of a disastrous accident. They change names and locations several times during their 50 years on the run. They are wonderful characters, fully and individually drawn in a story that sometimes strains credibility.