Irving, John
Summary: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: In 1954 New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old accidentally insults the local constable's girlfriend. Consequently, the boy and his father are forced to flee and essentially become fugitives from the law. Forced to hide throughout the northeastern United States before finally escaping to Toronto, the outcasts befriend a fiercely protective logger who shelters them from their pursuers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009