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999			_c7810 _d7810
020			_a0671454986
082			_aFic Ir8h 1982
100			_aIrving, John.
245			_aThe Hotel New Hampshire / _cJohn Irving.
260			_aNew York : _bPocket Books, _cc1982.
300			_a450 p.
520			_a“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.
526			_aFICTION
650			_aDomestic fiction.
650			_aFamilies -- New Hampshire -- Fiction.
650			_aAmericans -- Austria -- Fiction.
650			_aHotelkeepers -- Fiction.
942			_2ddc _cBK