The Hotel New Hampshire
$38.61
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1999
Summary
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.
‘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. Hotel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552992091 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0552992097 |
| Author: | John Irving |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Black Swan S. |
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Critics Review
A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie
A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie * The New York Times Book Review *Literate, ingenious and original * Observer *Irving is the wisest, most anguished and funniest novelist of his generation and The Hotel New Hampshire is his best work * Chicago Sun-Times *An American masterpiece – Anthony Burgess
About The Author
John Irving
John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story ‘Interior Space’. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.
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