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The Last Chairlift
A Literary Fiction Novel by John Irving
Subgenres:
- Ghost Story,
- Family Saga,
- Alternative Families
This book is for you if you're into...
- Multi-generational stories with unconventional families
- Ghost stories woven into decades of sexual politics
- New England and Aspen settings with a literary touch
John Irving's fifteenth novel is The Last Chairlift. It 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 aren't 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 Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.
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