The last chairlift: a novel
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John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.
Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees.
John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In the “generously intertextual” (The New York Times) The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.
Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, he will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or last ghosts he sees.
John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In the “generously intertextual” (The New York Times) The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
Subjects
Subjects
Aspen (Colo.) -- Fiction
Authors
Authors -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Colorado -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Exeter (N.H.) -- Fiction
Family secrets
Family secrets -- Fiction
Fathers and sons
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Fiction
Ghost stories
Historical fiction
Large print books
Literature
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
New Hampshire -- Fiction
Skiers
Skiers -- Fiction
Spirits
Spirits -- Fiction
Women skiers
Women skiers -- Fiction
Authors
Authors -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Colorado -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Exeter (N.H.) -- Fiction
Family secrets
Family secrets -- Fiction
Fathers and sons
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Fiction
Ghost stories
Historical fiction
Large print books
Literature
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
New Hampshire -- Fiction
Skiers
Skiers -- Fiction
Spirits
Spirits -- Fiction
Women skiers
Women skiers -- Fiction
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9781501189272
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Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which are not the first or the last ones he sees.
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Ghost stories
Historical fiction
Large print books
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New Hampshire -- Fiction
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Spirits -- Fiction
Women skiers -- Fiction
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Historical fiction
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New Hampshire -- Fiction
Skiers -- Fiction
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Skiers
Spirits
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Skiers
Spirits
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