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The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire

Author(s): John Irving

Location(s): Maine, New Hampshire, Vienna

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

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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.

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“A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie” (The New York Times Book Review)

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