{"product_id":"the-hotel-new-hampshire-9780345400475","title":"The Hotel New Hampshire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Hotel New Hampshire\u003c\/strong\u003e by Irving, John. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780345400475.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The first of my fathers 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.\"\nSo 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.\n\"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.\"\n--Time\n\"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book.\"\n--Los Angeles Times\n\"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity.\"\n--Cosmopolitan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116257566773,"sku":"ByrdShop_034540047X","price":59.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345400475_1e7fe0ef-3d0e-4ee8-befa-38a3d826b3bf.jpg?v=1777016763","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-hotel-new-hampshire-9780345400475","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}