John Irving

Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, The Hotel New Hampshire is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming

The Hotel New Hampshire

A novel narrated by the middle son in a family of five children, one bear, and one dog. Describes the Berry family growing up in three different hotels on two separate continents.

Daryl Houston

This book was funny and at times had a lot of heart, but the big middle part dragged on, and I felt uneasy with Irving's treatment of both race and another (avoiding spoilers here) central sort of trauma in the book. I'm not sure they're bad treatments, but they did make me feel uneasy.

Ture Strange Nilsson

Micah

Allison Dempsey

Leticia Leal

Maurice FitzGerald

Dr Seth Jones

Michael Springer

cora albers

Inesa

Kate Sigrist

Evan Hicks

Alexandra Sergeychik

Sabine Delorme

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

Benjamin Erwin

Robyn Campbell

"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

The Hotel New Hampshire

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