num_pages: 409
description: "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
language: English
title: The Hotel New Hampshire
titlecomplete: The Hotel New Hampshire
characters: Frank Berry, Franny Berry, Lilly Berry, John Berry, Win Berry
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Fiction, The United States Of America, Adult Fiction, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 64535
places: New York City, New York, Vienna, New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Ballantine Books