The last chairlift : a novel / John Irving
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 891 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1501189271; 9781501189272Subject(s): Authors -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Fathers and sons -- Fiction | Spirits -- Fiction | Exeter (N.H.) -- Fiction | Aspen (Colo.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. | Bildungsromans. | Novels.DDC classification: 813/.54 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 seesSummary: 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
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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
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