The Hotel New Hampshire - Brossura

Irving, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 034540047X ISBN 13: 9780345400475

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 1995

Riassunto

"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.
"Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."
--Time
"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."
--Los Angeles Times
"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."
--Cosmopolitan

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Like Garp...a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with a Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice." Time

"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world.... You must read this book." Los Angeles Times

"Spellbinding.... Intensely human.... A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity." Cosmopolitan
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for his novelThe World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story "Interior Space." In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay forThe Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novelIn One Person. An international writer--his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages--John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, isA Prayer for Owen Meany. Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 034540047X
• ISBN 13: 9780345400475
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 450