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Title:The Hotel New Hampshire
Author:John Irving
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 520 pages
Published:October 22nd 1982 by Black Swan (first published 1981)
Categories:Fiction. Contemporary. Literature. Novels. Classics. Literary Fiction. American

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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 a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.

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Original Title: The Hotel New Hampshire
ISBN: 0552992097 (ISBN13: 9780552992091)
Edition Language: English
Characters: John Berry, Franny Berry, Frank Berry, Win Berry, Lilly Berry
Setting: New Hampshire(United States) Vienna(Austria) New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards: National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1982)

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There's something a tad demented about this one. I'll pass.

This is one of my favorite books of all time, and is-for what it's worth-my favorite John Irving book in a world where everyone else picks The World According to Garp. It's the perfect blend of sad and sweet and strange, a combination that is quite difficult to pull off. Irving himself doesn't always manage that trifecta successfully in his other works. The story is about the travails (and boy, are there travails) of the Berry family of New Hampshire, in running the titular hotel and what

I feel a little bad for finishing this book so quickly, as John Irving spends years writing his books in longhand, no less! and a lot of work goes into constructing his stories, but I could not put this down. Never before I have been that enamored so soon when reading an Irving novel; typically, it takes a chapter or two until I warm up to the world he is building. Not so with The Hotel New Hampshire. I was charmed from the start. Ones enjoyment of this novel will likely hinge on his or her

This is an unusual but extremely outrageous and humourous read. I am a big fan of John Irving. It is just plain weird in parts of the story of the Berry Family as their Father aspires to own a hotel or two. Theres a lot of the unconventional issues in the plot, rape, incest, homosexuality and many more unexpected events with a bunch of lovable, quirky characters to add and nurture. Its quite a tragic story really with family heartbreak but they know that the one thing that matters is your family

It was fate that this book and I would eventually converge, I think. My writing program friends from school -- namely Kyle and the girl who started the extra curricular writing group I was a part of for two years -- frequently gushed about John Irving. My bookish aunt devoured all of his older works in high school. I made an attempt to read A Widow for One Year my freshman year of college and it left me cold, for as much as I trust those tastes. I felt little drive to ever pick him up again.

If you haven't read Irving yet, I think you should give him a try. This novel isn't one of his "big three", but it's damn good.First off, most Irving novels have some general characteristics: - They typically have a Dickensian plot, in which you follow the characters through large portions of their lives. The breadth of the novel typically goes through one generational span, but often you'll get (at least) a few beginning chapters detailing the lives of the protagonist's parents or grandparents,

i've probably read this 10 times now. i went through a john irving phase, and i ODed about half-way through. (140lb marriage is a terrible book, btw. don't do it).but this is one of my favorite books. it would be desert island number three, but it's a little too sad... i don't think it would be a good idea to isolate myself with it on an island to read again and again for eternity. that said, it's irving at his best. anyone who can take a family involved in incest and abuse and prostitution and