The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• "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 Widow for One Year and The Cider House Rules .

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : John Irving:

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: John Irving: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The summer my father bought the bear, none of us was born-we weren't even conceived: not Frank, the oldest; not Franny, the loudest; not me, the next; and not the youngest of us, Lilly and Egg.