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The last chairlift : a novel / John Irving.

Irving, John, 1942- (author.).

Summary:

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.
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

Record details

  • ISBN: 1501189271
  • ISBN: 9781501189272
  • Physical Description: 891 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Subject: Authors > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Spirits > Fiction.
Authors.
Family secrets.
Fathers and sons.
Mothers and sons.
Spirits.
Exeter (N.H.) > Fiction.
Aspen (Colo.) > Fiction.
Colorado > Aspen.
New Hampshire > Exeter.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.

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