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The Hotel New Hampshire
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
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The Hotel New Hampshire
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Publisher's Summary
The New York Times best-selling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp.
“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 Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
What the critics say
“A hectic, gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“A startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment.” (Time)
“Spellbinding . . . intensely human . . . a high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity.” (Cosmopolitan)
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- Valerie B.
- 2023-01-24
Loved it!
Forgot how much I loved John Irving. Great trip down memory lane. The worst part was when it was over!
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- 1torio
- 2023-04-13
A reluctant five stars
The narration was great at 1.2 speed. The writing was genius as I expected from the author. The story was a gruesome train wreck ( or more aptly a plane crash). I couldn’t believe what I I was hearing but I couldn’t stop listening! The explicit depiction of teenage rape, teenage sex and insest. Is Irving
a pedo?
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-11-11
Interesting story about serious issues ..
Spoiler alert - interesting story that kept me absorbed. However, some significant events such as death of the mother & a sibling, rape & suicide were like footnotes; whereas much detail went into the protagonist’s teenage romps with a prostitute & his incestuous infatuation with his sister.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-01-15
Boring sleepy narrative.
struggling to finish, narrator is dull in telling of the story.
liked the story and love the author
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