8220A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie.8221 The New York Times Book Review8220The first of my father8217s illusions was that bears coul... » 

8220A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie.8221 The New York Times Book Review8220The first of my father8217s 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.quotSo say 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 petbear owners friends of Freud the animal trainer and vaudevillian that is and playthings of mad fate they 8220dream on8221 in a funny. Sad outrageous and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Widow for One Year and The Cider House Rules.8220Like 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.8221 Time8220Rejoice John Irving has written another book according to your world.. You must read this book .8221 Los Angeles Times8220Spellbinding..Intensely human ..A highwire act of dazzling virtuosity.8221 Cosmopolitan «