The Hotel New Hampshire


<i>"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."<br> </i><br> 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 <i>A Widow for One Year</i> and <i>The Cider House Rules</i>.<br> <br> <p>Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, the Berry family "dreams on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Son of the Circus. </p>

Author(s): John Irving  

ISBN 10: 034540047X
ISBN 13: 9780345400475
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publication: August 1995
Edition: ~
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