The Hotel New Hampshire - Hardcover

Irving, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052512800X ISBN 13: 9780525128007

Publisher: E. P. Dutton, 1981

Synopsis

John, the middle son in an eccentric family with five children, one bear, and a dog named Sorrow, describes growing up in a hotel

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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 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

About this edition

• Publisher: E. P. Dutton
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 052512800X
• ISBN 13: 9780525128007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 401