num_pages: 450
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 Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
language: English
title: HOTEL NEW HAMPSHR
titlecomplete: HOTEL NEW HAMPSHR
characters: Franny Berry, Lilly Berry, John Berry, Frank Berry, Win Berry
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 64532
places: New Hampshire, Vienna, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Pocket