The Last Chairlift

By (author) John Irving

Oct 18, 2022 | Hardcover $45.00
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One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years “Here the consistent pleasure is an
—a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. extended family whose distinctive
voices deliver thoughtful messages of
John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among tolerance, understanding, and affection
them, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen for those who are different.” —Kirkus
Meany, and A Widow for One Year. TIME magazine describes his work as “epic Reviews
and extraordinary and controversial and sexually brave.” Now Irving has written
9780735276192 what he calls his last long novel—only shorter ones ahead. “[Irving’s] enormous imagination, his
storytelling gifts, and his intelligence
English In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National are all on display.” —Publishers
6.46 x 9.54 x 2.11 in | 2.76 lb Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere Weekly
near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England,
912 pages Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies “Irving’s majestic latest… is a
Knopf Canada conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, multigenerational portrait as colorful
looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was and varied as it is complex and quirky
conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he as it echoes and pays homage to the
Subject sees. author’s own rich literary history….
Irving infuses the narrative with
FICTION / Political If you’ve never read a John Irving novel, you’ll be captivated by storytelling that is countless comedic set pieces, some
tragic and comic, embodied by characters you’ll remember long after you’ve farcical, others wistfully tender. The
Other formats finished their story. If you have read John Irving before, you’ll rediscover the emotionally resonant result is
themes that made him a bard of alternative families—a visionary voice on the sweepingly cinematic, reminding the
9780735276215 Paperback / subject of sexual freedom. The author’s favourite tropes are here, but this reader that Irving has a screenwriting
softback, Trade paperback (US), meticulously plotted novel has powerful twists in store for readers. The Last Oscar. Autobiographical snippets and
$27.00 Chairlift breaks new artistic ground for Irving, who has been called “among the splashes of brilliance buttress the
very best storytellers at work today” (The Philadelphia Inquirer); “the American themes of death and aging, memory
Balzac” (The Nation); “a pop star of literature, beloved by all generations” and identity, in an elegiac testimony to
9780735276239 Downloadable Contributor Bio
audio file, Library binding the many facets of familial love…. A big,
immersive novel.” —Booklist
JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel,
9780735276208 EPUB Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He “Irving is a staunch supporter and frank
competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was
forty-seven. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in
9780735276222 Downloadable Stillwater, Oklahoma. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award
audio file three times, winning in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won
the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he
Distributor won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. An international writer, his
books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for
Random House, Inc. Owen Meany is his best-selling novel, in every language. A dual citizen of the
United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto. The Last Chairlift is his
fifteenth novel.
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Author Residence: Toronto, Ontario

Author Hometown: Exeter, New Hampshire