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The Last Chairlift. 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.
John Irving John Wallace Blunt, Jr. néven született, nevét vadászpilóta édesapjáról kapta. Édesanyja, Helen Francis Winslow, egy betegápoló azonban még Irving születése előtt elvált. A fiú nevét hatéves korában változtatták meg hivatalosan, amikor is örökbe fogadta őt mostohaapja, Collin F. N. Irving történelemprofesszor.
John Irving. Některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. John Winslow Irving, rodným jménem John Wallace Blunt, Jr. (* 2. března 1942, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA) je americký spisovatel a držitel Oscara za scénář k filmu Pravidla moštárny, který byl natočen podle jeho stejnojmenné knihy .
Oct 15, 2022 · John Irving became a best selling writer with "The World According To Garp." He talks with NPR's Scott Simon talks his final novel, "The Last Chairlift," which includes many of his trademark themes.
Nov 1, 2022 · Author John Irving talks about writing his longest book, The Last Chairlift, addressing sexual and gender politics in his novels and writing his 1985 book, T...
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Oct 18, 2022 · At 900 pages, “The Last Chairlift,” his 15th novel, is an overstuffed family saga about a screenwriter very much like the author himself. THE LAST CHAIRLIFT, by John Irving. An awful lot ...
The three in combination are a priceless gift, and to say that John Irving is vastly gifted is to say precisely that he possesses the proven talents which make for major fiction. He has published four novels in ten years, and with the appearance, in 1978, of The World According to Garp, he has taken his place in the front rank of American fiction.
