The Last Chairlift
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
• The fifteenth novel from one of the world’s greatest authors—a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics • “[Irving's] enormous imagination, his storytelling gifts, and his intelligence are all on display.” —Publishers Weekly
• “A multigenerational epic full of [Irving’s] old tricks.” —Los Angeles Times
John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year. TIME magazine describes his work as “epic and extraordinary and controversial and sexually brave.” Now Irving has written what he calls his last long novel—only shorter ones ahead.
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$27.00
October 3, 2023
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. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, 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, Mr. Irving won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five…