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Hotel New Hampshire

by John Irving

Hotel New Hampshire Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"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 a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

"Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."

--Time

"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."

--Los Angeles Times

"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."

--Cosmopolitan

Review:

"Like Garp...[a] startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with a Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."

Time

"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world…You must read this book."

Los Angeles Times

"Spellbinding…Intensely human…A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."

Cosmopolitan

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award. Mr. Irving lives with his family in Toronto and Vermont.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780345400475
Author:
Irving, John
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Family life
Subject:
Hotels, motels, etc
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine books ed.
Publication Date:
August 1995
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
432
Dimensions:
6.94x4.26x1.14 in. .47 lbs.

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