![]() ![]() Into the mix Irving pours a raft of cliched characters, including “harridan” aunts, chucklingly good-natured uncles, an inspiring, nay, saintly English teacher-cum-stepfather/mother, and huge, bossy, heart-of-gold lesbians.Īlongside these is a baffling amount of weak literary explication and juvenile political opining. The Last Chairlift follows the life of Adam Brewster, born in Exeter to a ski instructor mother (a deranged, semi-incestuous nymphomaniac, although I think she was supposed to come across as “kooky”) and an (at least initially) unknown father. ![]() And boy, did I feel every one of those pages. The Last Chairlift, John Irving’s 15th novel, is 11 shy of 900 pages long.
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