The Hotel New Hampshire

Written by John Irving

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

The New York Times bestselling 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Audio
• Release date: Mar 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9780593164112

John Irving

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning in 1980 for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Irving's most recent novel is In One Person (2012).

Reviews for The Hotel New Hampshire

[whmranch · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Sorry to say I did not like this book at all. I liked Cider House a lot. Found it thought provoking. Both books seem needlessly raunchy but this one was rambling and shallow.

[javleon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I consider it a book that shows the life of a family in the most tragically funny way. Its touch of humor keeps you hooked on the book. (Translated from Spanish)