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The Last Chairlift
John Irving
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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.
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The Last Chairlift (Standard format, CD)
John Irving; Read by Jacques Roy, Raquel Beattie, Cassandra Campbell, Chris Henry Coffey, …
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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.
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The Last Chairlift
John Irving
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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.
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
Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and
stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the
pianist's repertoire. In this study, John Irving looks at a wide
selection of contextual situations for Mozart's sonatas, focusing
on the variety of ways in which they assume identities and achieve
meanings. In particular, the book seeks to establish the
provisionality of the sonatas' notated texts, suggesting that the
texts are not so much identifiers as possibilities and that their
identity resides in the usage. Close attention is paid to reception
matters, analytical approaches, organology, the role of autograph
manuscripts, early editions and editors, and aspects of historical
performance practice - all of which go beyond the texts in opening
windows onto Mozart's sonatas. Treating the sonatas collectively as
a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the book surveys
broad thematic issues such as the role of historical writing about
music in defining a generic space for Mozart's sonatas, their
construction within pedagogical traditions, the significance of
sound as opposed to sight in these works (and in particular their
sound on fortepianos of the later eighteenth-century) , and the
creative role of the performer in their representation beyond the
frame of the text. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of
material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those
already familiar with this repertoire.
Mozart is perhaps the greatest composer who ever lived. His music,
like Shakespeare's prose, expresses every facet of the human
condition, and transcends time and place. This new title in the
blockbuster "Treasures" series pays tribute to Mozart's musical
brilliance, covering his entire life and major works in a series of
lavish spreads. Follow Mozart as he takes his first steps as a
composer, tours Europe as a child genius, struggles to reconcile
his artistic vision with his patrons' demands, and achieves fame
but not fortune--tragically dying at only 35 years of age in abject
poverty. Learn, also, about his encounter with Haydn, connection
with the Masons, and marvelous operas: "The Marriage of Figaro,"
"Don Giovanni," " Cosi fan tutte," and "The Magic Flute."Boxed
sidebars and facsimile documents complete the exquisite slipcased
package, which comes complete with a CD of Mozart's most enchanting
pieces. FACSIMILE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE: - Original scores - Letters to
friends and family, including those from Mozart telling his father
and sister of his mother's death- Concert posters- Concert
programs- Reviews and criticisms
Mozart's piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and
stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the
pianist's repertoire. In this study, John Irving looks at a wide
selection of contextual situations for Mozart's sonatas, focusing
on the variety of ways in which they assume identities and achieve
meanings. In particular, the book seeks to establish the
provisionality of the sonatas' notated texts, suggesting that the
texts are not so much identifiers as possibilities and that their
identity resides in the usage. Close attention is paid to reception
matters, analytical approaches, organology, the role of autograph
manuscripts, early editions and editors, and aspects of historical
performance practice - all of which go beyond the texts in opening
windows onto Mozart's sonatas. Treating the sonatas collectively as
a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the book surveys
broad thematic issues such as the role of historical writing about
music in defining a generic space for Mozart's sonatas, their
construction within pedagogical traditions, the significance of
sound as opposed to sight in these works (and in particular their
sound on fortepianos of the later eighteenth-century) , and the
creative role of the performer in their representation beyond the
frame of the text. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of
material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those
already familiar with this repertoire.
Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown,
distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo
Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly
engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his
native Italy and then expanding all over the world, the movement
has created a powerful force for change. The essential argument of
this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting
and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed
themselves, they can be free. In other words, if people can regain
control over access to their food-how it is produced, by whom, and
how it is distributed-then that can lead to a greater empowerment
in all channels of life. Whether in the Amazon jungle talking with
tribal elders or on rice paddies in rural Indonesia, the author
engages the reader through the excitement of his journeys and the
passion of his mission. Here, Petrini reports upon some of the
success stories that he has observed firsthand. From Chiapas to
Puglia, Morocco to North Carolina, he has witnessed the many ways
different peoples have dealt with food problems. This book allows
us to learn from these case studies and lays out models for the
future.
Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies
as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have
attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have
explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In
this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of
scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical
approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of
compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and
early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a
repertoire, rather than as individual works, the first section of
the book tackles broad thematic issues such as the role of the
piano concerto in Mozart's quasi-freelance life in late
eighteenth-century Vienna, the origin of his concertos in earlier
traditions of concerto writing; eighteenth-century theoretical
frameworks for the understanding of movement forms, subsequent
historical shifts in the perception of the concerto's form,
listening strategies and performance practices. This is followed by
a 'documentary register' which proceeds through all 23 original
works, drawing together information on the source materials.
Accounts of the concertos' compositional genesis, early performance
history and reception are also included here, drawing extensively
on the Mozart family correspondence and other contemporary reports.
Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material, Irving
provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar
with this repertoire.
Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies
as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have
attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have
explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In
this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of
scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical
approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of
compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and
early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a
repertoire, rather than as individual works, the first section of
the book tackles broad thematic issues such as the role of the
piano concerto in Mozart's quasi-freelance life in late
eighteenth-century Vienna, the origin of his concertos in earlier
traditions of concerto writing; eighteenth-century theoretical
frameworks for the understanding of movement forms, subsequent
historical shifts in the perception of the concerto's form,
listening strategies and performance practices. This is followed by
a 'documentary register' which proceeds through all 23 original
works, drawing together information on the source materials.
Accounts of the concertos' compositional genesis, early performance
history and reception are also included here, drawing extensively
on the Mozart family correspondence and other contemporary reports.
Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material, Irving
provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar
with this repertoire.
"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving
novel in well over a decade" ("Vanity Fair").
Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary Award
A "New York Times" bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual
identity, "In One Person" is a story of unfulfilled
love--tormented, funny, and affecting--and an impassioned embrace
of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main
character of "In One Person," tells the tragicomic story (lasting
more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a
phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of
"terminal cases," "The World According to Garp."
"In One Person" is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and
lovers--a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and
convention. Not least, "In One Person" is an intimate and
unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is
dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because
of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or
even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but
because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because
of Owen Meany.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best
friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend,
New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the
other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in
accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens
to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
A 2019 Italian Bestseller Surgically, but with wit, Francesco
Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about
Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and
intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned, including
the colonial devastation of Libya and Ethiopia. Legend would have
it that Mussolini put roofs over Italians' heads, developed the
economy, had trains running on time, stood up for justice and
against the mafia, protected the Jews from Nazi Germany, was a
feminist, and put Italy on the map as a respected power. The
founder of fascism's only mistake was allying with Hitler. Though
this is entirely false, it didn't prevent Antonio Tahani, president
of the European Union, from declaring in 2019 that "if we must be
honest, he [Mussolini] did positive things to realize
infrastructures ... he reclaimed many parts of our Italy." In fact,
only 6 percent of the improvements referred to were done during the
21 years of fascist rule. Though written first for Italians, this
book is relevant and timely for North Americans. Through a study of
Mussolini and Italy, Filippi shows how such legends are built on
webs of lie, manipulation of History, and constant uncontested
repetition, explaining at the same time why so many people fall
victim to the propaganda.
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.
Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life,
loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his
parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a
tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father,
William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant
church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead -
has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo
somewhere on his body from a local master or "scratcher."
Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools
in Canada and New England - including, tellingly, a girls' school
in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with
older women - from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic
life, to the girls of St. Hilda's, with whom he first appears on
stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent
to learn wrestling at a local gym.
Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly
summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma
becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of
eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack's
hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the
girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds
in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about
tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, "sleeping in the
needles" and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders
his protagonist's unusual rise through Hollywood with the same
vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack
hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and
moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the
signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can't get rid of.
Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he
grows older - and when his mother dies - he starts to doubt the
portrait of his father's character she painted for him when he was
a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in
search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a
conclusion of great emotional force.
A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You" "is also a
swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life's hopes. It is a
masterpiece to compare with John Irving's great novels, and
restates the author's claim to be considered the most glorious,
comic, moving novelist at work today.
"From the Hardcover edition."
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best
friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend,
New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the
other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in
accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens
to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary.
Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he
struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things
that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a
terrible burden it is to know - or to think you know - your future,
or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl
be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what
lies ahead? Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to
fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it
has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the
final chapters. This is the story of what happens when the future
collides with the past.
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