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新罕布夏旅館

作者 IRVING, JOHN
出版社 Penguin Random House LLC
商品描述 HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE:本書描寫一個新罕布夏州得瑞中學開設旅館的家族,家中成員之間與外界不斷糾葛的的故事。爺爺巴布是足球教練,教練生涯很少獲勝,鎮上居民不怎麼看得

內容簡介

內容簡介 "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 Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany."Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."--Time"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."--Los Angeles Times"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."--Cosmopolitan '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 Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. 'Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice.' --Time 'Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book.' --Los Angeles Times 'Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity.' --Cosmopolitan

各界推薦

各界推薦 本書描寫一個新罕布夏州得瑞中學開設旅館的家族,家中成員之間與外界不斷糾葛的的故事。 爺爺巴布是足球教練,教練生涯很少獲勝,鎮上居民不怎麼看得起的人物,但卻養出了一個念哈佛的兒子,並且最後在他退休前一年學校找來一堆槍手,結果球隊連戰連勝,找來的槍手們卻因為強暴他的孫女芬妮而退學。結果,他被大孫子法藍所致做的狗標本所嚇死。 爸爸好不容易念了哈佛,但必須自己籌錢唸書,就學前並在一個打工機會中認識同鄉的媽媽,但在一次荒謬的意外中決定結婚。大學畢業後,父親將媽媽的母校買下來,改建成新罕布夏旅館,並常常跟媽媽開房間做愛,卻不知道他們的小孩透過無意發現監聽系統偷聽。之後被激進份子挾持,因為打死激進份子首領而成為英雄。 大兒子法藍是個同性戀,小時候常被欺負,但是長大後卻成為家庭事務的評論家與侏儒小說家妹妹莉莉的經紀人,沒有什麼實權。大女兒芬妮是個嘴巴很壞的漂亮花心女孩,第一個喜歡的人是強暴她的學長,又喜歡上想炸死他們全家的激進份子,真正愛的人其實是練舉重的弟弟約翰,回美國後決定對強暴她的學長進行報復,這位學長最後被整得一輩子不敢再碰女人。而選擇性重聽的小兒子蛋蛋,則與媽媽一起死於空難。 被美國文壇泰斗馮內果喻為「美國最重要的幽默作家」的John Irving,是當代最知名的小說家之一,他作品中所呈現高超的說故事技巧與優美的文學性,使他常被與狄更斯和J. D. 沙林傑等重量級小說家相提並論。他的小說不僅贏得書評界的一致推崇,而且叫好又叫座,是美加地區最暢銷的小說家之一。

作者介紹

作者介紹 JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for his novelThe World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story "Interior Space." In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay forThe Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novelIn One Person. An international writer--his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages--John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, isA Prayer for Owen Meany. Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.

商品規格

書名 / HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE
作者 / IRVING, JOHN
簡介 / HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE:本書描寫一個新罕布夏州得瑞中學開設旅館的家族,家中成員之間與外界不斷糾葛的的故事。爺爺巴布是足球教練,教練生涯很少獲勝,鎮上居民不怎麼看得
出版社 / Penguin Random House LLC
ISBN13 / 9780345400475
ISBN10 / 034540047X
EAN / 9780345400475
誠品26碼 / 2611264982001
頁數 / 419
注音版 /
裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無