The Hotel New HampshireThe Hotel New Hampshire
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Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, Vintage Canada ed., 2001, All copies in use.Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, Vintage Canada ed., 2001, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats'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 lived 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 Widow for One Year and The Cider House Rules .
“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 Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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- Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2001, c1981.
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