The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving, 1981
A family turns its parents' romance into a legend, then has to live with the bear, the hotel, and the jokes.
John Irving
Feels like family, tenderness and faith.
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Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, and has said he writes a novel's last sentence first; The Hotel New Hampshire was his fifth.
Some families begin with a wedding; this one begins with a bear.
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. My father and mother were hometown kids who knew each other all their lives, but their “union,” as Frank always called it, hadn’t taken place when Father bought the bear. Books by John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving, 1989
A boy who believes God has a plan for him, and a friend who spends his life deciding whether to believe it too.
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