![]() ![]() ![]() Readers familiar with Irving's life will find the number of similarities not only striking but perhaps even perplexing, for in places it seems that he chose not to invent a fictional life for his co-protagonist but to model Danny literally after himself. In fact, as much as this is a story about love and loss, it also seems to be a story about John Irving. Amid all this, Danny gets a scholarship to Exeter, after which he goes to university and becomes a famous novelist, his career mirroring every step of Irving's own. ![]() Ketchum stays behind to throw their nemesis off the trail, then spends the next five decades apprising them of Constable Carl's progress in finding them, as father and son bounce around New England, thence to the Midwest, and finally to Toronto. In 1954, after an inadvertent tragedy, Dominic and Danny flee the rural New Hampshire logging camp where they lived in order to escape the wrath of a bad cop named Constable Carl. ![]() Twisted River is about the relationships among three men: Dominic Baciagalupo, an Italian-American cook with a warm heart and a bad limp his son, Danny, who resembles his father, save for the limp and the outdoorsy, hard-drinking Ketchum, their friend and protector. ![]()
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