"Here the consistent pleasure is an extended family whose distinctive voices deliver thoughtful messages of tolerance, understanding, and affection for those who are different."- KIRKUS REVIEWS "Powerfully cinematic.Irving’s portrayal of a shooting in a crowded venue, for instance, is rendered with such visual acuity and kinetic energy that I’d swear I saw it rather than read it.Whenever “The Last Chairlift” is actively expanding the boundaries of what a family can be - the story feels vital and exciting."- WASHINGTON POST Irving has been cranking out novels for 54 years, establishing a consistent generosity of spirit that continues through his most recent book."- Boston Globe “The Last Chairlift” is eminently readable, stocked with characters and relationships easy to invest in, even when things get a little queasy making. It can also be a romantic comedy that includes some characters more scared by living ghouls than ectoplasm. “Irving is at home in the supernatural he traverses the membrane between this world and the next with comfort and ease. If Irving keeps hammering that point, over and over again, it's because he's collected years of evidence that some people never hear it.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune "There's more than one way to love people, Kid," young Adam is told early on. “Irving's old magic emerges: his wit and fearlessness around sex, and his grasp of the wide ripple effects of intolerance. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. 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. 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. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.
Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. 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.
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