The Hotel New Hampshire
“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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345417954 (034541795X)
ASIN: 034541795X
Publish date: June 23rd 1997
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
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,...
Najgorszy zarzut, jaki można poczynić wobec książki to stwierdzić, że nie wzbudziła ona w czytelniku żadnych emocji. Czytając "Hotel New Hampshire" doświadczyłam całej gamy różnych odczuć: było i zabawnie, i dramatycznie, pojawiły się nawet chwile grozy - wszystko to wymieszane we właściwych proporc...
I finished this book a few days ago and I still don't know how I feel about it. This is a new experience for me. I always know how I feel about a book. I get halfway through a book and I know whether I love it or hate it, and then I keep reading to confirm that feeling. Hell, sometimes it takes me a...
john irving and tom robbins - how do these guys come up with this stuff?? a lot of interesting stuff (and bizarre stuff) going on, plenty to think about.