The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) - John Irving

John Irving

Public domain

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Contemporary, Adults

Publisher: Books on Tape Duration: 19:57:26 Release date: March 24, 2020, 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., 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, a quirky New Hampshire family composed of a married couple, Win and Mary, and their five children, Frank, Franny, John, Lilly, and Egg. Wins favorite colleague was a man called Freud who worked as the resort handyman. Freud owned a bear called State o Maine, which he eventually sold to Win., Win bought the bear because he planned to tour the country, staging performances to raise money to study at Harvard. His bear act was a success, and he graduated from Harvard a few years later. Although he now has a good job t