The Last Chairlift

"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."--

About the author

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: John Irving, John Irving
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781501189272
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-8927-2
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: politics / economics