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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. 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. 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 Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.

A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. ‘A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking…terrific’ WASHINGTON POST Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author. A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving’s classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields – an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of her time. Beautifully written, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP is a powerfully compelling and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. ‘A diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delight…As approachable as it is brilliant’ COSMOPOLITAN

Un giorno qualunque dell’estate 1953, con una palla lanciata durante una partita di baseball, Owen Meany uccide per sbaglio l’adorata madre del suo più caro compagno di giochi, John Wheelwright. Un’amicizia, quella tra i due ragazzi, resa speciale dall’unicità di Owen, che, incredibilmente minuto e dotato di un’eterea vocetta nasale, catalizza le attenzioni di chiunque lo incontri. Acuto e introspettivo, polemico e riflessivo, filosofo e fervido credente, è lui che, dopo la prematura scomparsa della madre di John, veglia sull’amico, inducendolo a terminare gli studi e a sfuggire all’arruolamento per il Vietnam. Owen Meany diviene così il ritratto di una creatura eccezionale, toccante, comica e al contempo fatale.

‘The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.’ So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they ‘dream on’ in this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.