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The last chairlift / John Irving.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2022]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 29 audio discs (approximately 1967 min.) ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9781797111223
  • 1797111221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Read by Jacques Roy ; featuring a supporting ensemble.Summary: 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; they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees.
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Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Dr. James Carlson Library Audiobook FICTION IRVING, JOHN Available 33111009973336
Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Northport Library Audiobook FICTION IRVING, JOHN Available 33111009973344
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John Irving's fifteenth novel is "powerfully cinematic" ( The Washington Post ) and "eminently readable" ( The Boston Globe ). The Last Chairlift 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 "generously intertextual" ( The New York Times ) The Last Chairlift , readers will once more be in his thrall.

Read by Jacques Roy ; featuring a supporting ensemble.

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; they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees.

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