In good fiction, isn’t everything connected to everything else?” In “The Last Chairlift,” Irving tries to do both - tell a fictional story that is chock full of random events, but make it feel like nothing is random at all in hindsight, as Adam relates it all to us. Things just happen, random things that have no connection to one another. But as narrator Adam admits: “Real life is so sloppy - it’s full of coincidences. Every Irving fan will read it and even readers trying Irving for the first time will find it an accessible introduction to the New England-born novelist whose work has always been stuffed with serious themes like religion, sex and politics, tempered by a fair dose of satire and absurdity, delivered by narrators in an endearing, matter-of-fact prose.Īt its heart “The Last Chairlift” is a love story, telling almost the entire life story of its narrator, Adam Brewster, himself a writer growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire, who wrestles, becomes a bestselling novelist, wins an Oscar and earns Canadian citizenship, not unlike Mr. It’s difficult to do justice to this book in a short review. He’s written a book longer than most editions of “Moby-Dick.” And by the time you’re done reading it, you’ll chuckle every time you see the hyphen in Melville’s title.
“The Last Chairlift” by John Irving (Simon & Schuster)Īfter 54 years and 15 novels, John Irving’s finally done it. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.This cover image released by Simon & Schuste shows "The Last Chairlift" by John Irving. 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. The Last Chairlift Free ePUB by John Irving
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