{"product_id":"the-hotel-new-hampshire","title":"The Hotel New Hampshire","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\".\u003cbr\u003eSo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\"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\".\u003cbr\u003e--Time\u003cbr\u003e\"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book\".\u003cbr\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity\".\u003cbr\u003e--Cosmopolitan","brand":"Dutton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48005274501309,"sku":"BS-TC0-417954","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780345417954-HD.jpg?v=1786933552","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/the-hotel-new-hampshire","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}