03062cam a2200577 4500 2573286339 TxAuBib 20250920120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781501189296 1501189298 B09RX3123G Amazon 381cfe68-659c-4636-b98b-dd89feceaf97 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8796275 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Irving, John, 1942- The Last Chairlift [Libby eBook]. Simon & Schuster, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. gift ideas for book lovers. decade-spanning novel. Alternative Families. a widow for one year. holiday gift ideas. cider house rules. new john irving. last charilift. holiday gifts. Family Saga . new england. ghost story. love story. gift ideas. owen meany. skiing. Movies. Cinema. aspen. LGBTQ. trans. 1941. GARP. HTML:<b>John Irving's fifteenth novel is "powerfully cinematic" (<i>The Washington Post</i>) and "eminently readable" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>).</b> <b><i>The Last Chairlift</i></b> <b>is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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 <i>The Last Chairlift</i>, they aren't the first or last ghosts he sees.<br /> <br /> John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, <i>The World According to Garp</i> and <i>The Cider House Rules</i>. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In the "generously intertextual" (<i>The New York Times</i>) <i>The Last Chairlift</i>, readers will once more be in his thrall. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-09-19 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=381cfe68-659c-4636-b98b-dd89feceaf97&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=381cfe68-659c-4636-b98b-dd89feceaf97&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID