The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving [FIRST U.K. PAPERBACK EDITION] 1983 • Corgi Books

The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving 

FIRST U.K. PAPERBACK EDITION [1983] CORGI BOOKS 

Rare 3rd Corgi printing [london] w/ embossed cover art and illustrated undersides on both front and back covers.

Some edge / corner wear to cover and a tiny ink dot to bottom of text block.  Otherwise excellent and seemingly unread. 

“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 Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.