The Last Chairlift

ISBN: 150118928X

Author: Irving, John

Condition: New

John Irvings 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 arent 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.