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The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (Paperback, 1982)

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It does have, however, "characters" aplenty inside: whores, an ugly girl who wears a bear suit, radicals who attempt to blow up the State Opera. And, to fill the big chaotic spaces in between, Irving pads like crazy, picking out a few coy sermonettes here and there: "But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

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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. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they 'dream on' in this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.