02122cam a2200409 i 4500 608801084 TxAuBib 20221108120000.0 220216s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781501189272 1501189271 (OCoLC)1296942370 TxAuBib rda Irving, John, author. The Last Chairlift : A novel / John Irving. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. 891 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20221108. BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund. Authors Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Spirits Fiction. Exeter (N.H.) Fiction. Aspen (Colo.) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels.