num_pages: 416
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.
language: English
title: The Hotel New Hampshire
titlecomplete: The Hotel New Hampshire
characters: Franny Berry, Frank Berry, Win Berry, John Berry, Lilly Berry
genres: The United States Of America, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Humor, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, American
ratings_count: 64547
places: Vienna, New York City, New York, New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Vintage Canada