num_pages: 409
description: The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp .“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: 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: 64536
places: New York City, New York, Vienna, New Hampshire
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Dutton