![]() ![]() ![]() She is also gay, something 12-year-old Adam only realises when he catches her having fun with her female lover on the day of her wedding in 1956 to a petit male English teacher. That she had sex with an unnamed man for the first and last time with the sole purpose of conceiving Adam has lent the act itself a near mythical quality for her young son. His mother, Little Ray, a pocket-size ski instructor who spends half the year away working in Vermont, is largely the cause, if not always to blame. Adam, who narrates the story of his life against an intermittently unfolding history of post-war America, across an interminable 900 pages, develops a youthful sex complex to rival any character of Philip Roth. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.“The issues we have, about being Brewsters, are all about sex,” says Nora to her younger cousin Adam early on in John Irving’s exhausting new novel. ![]() A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. 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. 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. ![]() Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. ![]()
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