内容説明
"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 Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
"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."
--Time
"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."
--Los Angeles Times
"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."
--Cosmopolitan
内容(「BOOK」データベースより)
1939年夏の魔法の一日、ウィン・ベリーは海辺のホテルでメアリー・ベイツと出会い、芸人のフロイトから一頭の熊を買う。こうして、ベリー家の歴史が始まった。ホモのフランク、小人症のリリー、難聴のエッグ、たがいに愛し合うフラニーとジョン、老犬のソロー。それぞれに傷を負った家族は、父親の夢をかなえるため、ホテル・ニューハンプシャーを開業する―現代アメリカ文学の金字塔。
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