The Last Chairlift (CD-Audio)

The Last Chairlift By John Irving, Jacques Roy (Read by), Raquel Beattie (Read by), Cassandra Campbell (Read by), Chris Henry Coffey (Read by), Piper Goodeve (Read by), Em Grosland (Read by), Aden Hakimi (Read by), Graham Halstead (Read by), Chanté McCormick (Read by), Natalie Naudus (Read by), Aida Reluzco (Read by), Pete Simonelli (Read by), Natasha Soudek (Read by), Travis Tonn (Read by), Erin Ruth Walker (Read by), Nancy Wu (Read by) Cover Image
By John Irving, Jacques Roy (Read by), Raquel Beattie (Read by), Cassandra Campbell (Read by), Chris Henry Coffey (Read by), Piper Goodeve (Read by), Em Grosland (Read by), Aden Hakimi (Read by), Graham Halstead (Read by), Chanté McCormick (Read by), Natalie Naudus (Read by), Aida Reluzco (Read by), Pete Simonelli (Read by), Natasha Soudek (Read by), Travis Tonn (Read by), Erin Ruth Walker (Read by), Nancy Wu (Read by)
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Description


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.

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.

Praise For…


"Roy’s pleasing and cordial voice navigates the story of Rachel Brewster, Little Ray, and her son, Adam, as ghosts of former relatives haunt their unconventional family. Roy portrays gender twists and sexual violence with a steady hand."
— AudioFile Magazine


Product Details
ISBN: 9781797111223
ISBN-10: 1797111221
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication Date: October 18th, 2022
Language: English