- American literature, Hotels, Family, Fiction
The Hotel New Hampshire follows the Berry family across two continents and through three hotels. Family members attract friends who substitute lust, violence, laughter and tears for the standard bourgeois components.
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Contemporary, classical in form, open-ended and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- John Irving
- First published
- March 2, 1984
- Pages
- 450
- Publisher
- Dutton, Roman, Éditions du Seuil
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- English, French, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780552992091
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John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—Joh
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