Irving, John.
The Hotel New Hampshire / John Irving. - New York : Pocket Books, c1982. - 450 p.
“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 Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
0671454986
Domestic fiction.
Families -- New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Americans -- Austria -- Fiction.
Hotelkeepers -- Fiction.
Fic Ir8h 1982
The Hotel New Hampshire / John Irving. - New York : Pocket Books, c1982. - 450 p.
“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 Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
0671454986
Domestic fiction.
Families -- New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Americans -- Austria -- Fiction.
Hotelkeepers -- Fiction.
Fic Ir8h 1982