# The Hotel New Hampshire

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- Book: [The Hotel New Hampshire](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-hotel-new-hampshire) ([The Hotel New Hampshire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving/the-hotel-new-hampshire.md))
- Authors: [John Irving](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-irving)
- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-191-6
- Published: 2012-05-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'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.