The Last Chairlift Book Reviews

AUTHOR
John Irving
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
262

The Last Chairlift by John Irving Book Summary

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.

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Book Name The Last Chairlift
Genre Literary Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 8.47 MB

The Last Chairlift (John Irving) Book Reviews 2024

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The Last Chairlift. I almost put this book down after a few pages. My initial impressions was that it was a bit too much, been there; done that. However, it being John Irving and having read many of his other works I gave it a few more pages, then a few more, and a few more.
 Soon I was pulled into the world and family, perhaps predictably slightly dysfunctional yet endearing in almost every way.
“The Last Chairlift” is an invitation to the penultimate family event—I think. I’m trying to be clever, but “The Last Chairlift” is not about clever. It’s about family and connections and the ways it can sometimes all come together. Well worth every one of however many words there are contained in almost 900 pages.

Thank you for one last novel.. There was a little bit of everything a fan would appreciate. The themes of acceptance, love, and nurturing come through along with ghosts. Not sure if the shotgun scene in Aspen was an homage to Dr. Thompson who lost his voice at the end in Woody Creek, but his heartfelt tribute to Mr. Vonnegut was appreciated along with the use of a spot lit semicolon. The great reveal of Rabi Karabekian is tough to beat as a swan song. The only regret is that The Water Method Man was never made into a film. Where the Buffalo Roam and The World According to Garp came out in theaters at the same time and Bill Murray would have carried Fred ‘Bogus’ Trumper nicely. Thank you from a very appreciative reader.

Pass. Usually thoroughly enjoy the author’s work but found this one a real struggle. Prayer for Owen and Last Night are favorites. Couldn’t even finish this one.

My New Favorite. The Last Chairlift is my favorite book of all time by any author, beating The Hotel New Hampshire. The Last Chairlift is full of Irving’s greatest hits: Exeter, wrestling, a man who doesn’t know who is father is, a transgendered woman. In Irving fashion, the characters are well developed, to the point where we cheer when something good happens, and feel a gut punch when something bad does.

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Summary of The Last Chairlift by John Irving

The The Last Chairlift book written by John Irving was published on 18 October 2022, Tuesday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 262 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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