The Hotel New Hampshire

Name: The Hotel New Hampshire
Brand: Transworld Publ. Ltd UK
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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

'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 this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

15. September 2010

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

542

Autor/Autorin

John Irving

Verlag/Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

381 g

Größe (L/B/H)

200/128/40 mm

Sonstiges

B-format paperback

ISBN

9780552992091

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John Irving

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that he received encouragement. 'It was so simple,' he remembers. 'Yount was the first person to point out that anything I did except writing was going to be vaguely unsatisfying.'

The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving's fourth novel and his first international bestseller; it also became a George Roy Hill film. Tony Richardson wrote and directed the adaptation for the screen of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). Irving's novels are now translated into thirty-five foreign languages, and he has had nine international bestsellers. Worldwide, the Irving novel most often called "an American classic" is A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), the portrayal of an enduring friendship at that time when the Vietnam War had its most divisive effect on the United States.

In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, until he was thirty-four, and coached the sport until he was forty-seven). In 2000, Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a Lasse Hallström film with seven Academy Award nominations. Tod Williams wrote and directed The Door in the Floor, the 2004 film adapted from Mr. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year. Avenue of Mysteries is John Irving's fourteenth novel.

John Irving has three children and lives in Vermont and Toronto.

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A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie The New York Times Book Review

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Wenn John Irving, dann A Prayer to Owen Meaning

Mein Einstieg bei John Irving war vor vielen Jahre A Prayer to Owen Meaning, das ich mit wachsender Begeisterung las. Vielleicht waren es die Bezüge zur Blechtrommel (Irving ist als Grass-Fan bekannt), die mich anzogen. In The Hotel New Hampshire hat Irving wieder Grass seine Reverenz erwiesen, einiges erinnerte mich auch an das großartige "Die Insel des zweiten Gesichts" von Albert Vigoleis Thelen. Doch Irving überzieht im Hotel das Groteske und Ordinäre. So wurde ich mit dem Personal in diesem Familien- und Entwicklungsroman nirgends warm. Alles passiert wie hinter einem Schleier. Die ausufernde Beschreibung (von vielen Leserinnen positiv als Fabulierkunst gerühmt) des Inzests und einiges andere der Handlung ist auf Krawall gebürstet. Wenn John Irving, dann A Prayer to Owen Meaning.