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

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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 From the Back Cover Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, The Hotel New Hampshire is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna.

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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.