Publication Date: 22/10/1982 ISBN: 9780552992091 Category:

The Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 22/10/1982 ISBN: 9780552992091 Category:
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‘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.

Publisher Review

An American masterpiece -- Anthony Burgess Irving is the wisest, most anguished and funniest novelist of his generation and The Hotel New Hampshire is his best work * Chicago Sun-Times * Literate, ingenious and original * Observer * A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie * The New York Times Book Review *

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