The Hotel New Hampshire
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“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.
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The is the second time I have read this book but I only got half way through this time. I found it just a bit slow & not engaging enough.
I love this book. The Hotel New Hampshire is one of the strangest books I have ever read, but it is so wonderful. Over the course of the book you come to love all the characters as they get into all sorts of weird situations! I will admit, this book does use some terms which are very outdated now, I'm not sure how okay they were back when it was written, but if you're uncomfortable with the word m*dget used for people with dwarfism or themes of rape, underage sex, or incest then I'd maybe steer clear of this one. (As for the incest, it is fully consensual and does not last long.)
Aside from all that, this book is just brilliant. 5/5 stars, I loved it!
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