The Last Chairlift (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501189272)

Vendor: John Irving
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$38.00
$38.00
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The Last Chairlift

The Last Chairlift

$38.00
The Last Chairlift

The Last Chairlift

$38.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years--a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime 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, Adam 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 the 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 Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.

Author: John Irving
ISBN-10: 1501189271
ISBN-13: 9781501189272
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2022
Pages: 912
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.82lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.24w x 1.85d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 2
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2022
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 134
BookPage 10/01/2022
By John Irving
By John Irving
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John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

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