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The last chairlift : a novel / John Irving.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735276192 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 891 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.
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| Subject: | Authors > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Spirits > Fiction. Aspen (Colo.) > Fiction. Exeter (N.H.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Irvin | 31681010297034 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | FIC Irvin | 31681010297059 | FICTION | Available | - |
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One of the worldâs greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven yearsâa ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.
John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our timeâamong them, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year. TIME magazine describes his work as âepic and extraordinary and controversial and sexually brave.â Now Irving has written what he calls his last long novelâonly shorter ones ahead.
   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; they arenât the first or the last ghosts he sees.
   If youâve never read a John Irving novel, youâll be captivated by storytelling that is tragic and comic, embodied by characters youâll remember long after youâve finished their story. If you have read John Irving before, youâll rediscover the themes that made him a bard of alternative familiesâa visionary voice on the subject of sexual freedom. The authorâs favourite tropes are here, but this meticulously plotted novel has powerful twists in store for readers. The Last Chairlift breaks new artistic ground for Irving, who has been called âamong the very best storytellers at work todayâ (The Philadelphia Inquirer); âthe American Balzacâ (The Nation); âa pop star of literature, beloved by all generationsâ (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich); and âthe voice of social justice and compassion in contemporary American literatureâ (The Globe and Mail). With The Last Chairlift, readers will once again be in John Irvingâs thrall.
