The Last Chairlift -- John Irving, Hardcover Duke York and the power of stories

and the power of stories and traditional culture as the keys to self-awareness and

Author: Carla Bergman

she indicts the white Grimke sisters for their racial paternalism

Alaina Grace's upgraded first-class ticket places her far from her husband and next to the notorious Jack Volmer

Author: Matthew Pratt Guterl

The Last Chairlift -- John Irving, Hardcover Duke York and the power of storiesJohn 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