约翰·欧文(John Irving),被美国文坛泰斗冯内古特喻为“美国最重要的幽默作家”,是当代最知名的小说家之一,他作品中所呈现的高超的说故事技巧与优美的文学性,使人们常将他与狄更斯和J. D. 塞林格等重量级小说家相提并论。他的小说不仅赢得书评界的一致推崇,而且叫好又叫座,是西方最畅销的小说家之一。
"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
二零零二年冬天,美国文坛巨匠约翰·欧文即将六十一岁时,一名三十九岁的男子联系他,自称是他同父异母的弟弟。他们很快见了面。见面后,两个人久久没有说话,只是紧盯着彼此:约翰·欧文眼前这位陌生人和欧文自己的大儿子几乎同龄,相貌酷似;而对方则在头发花白的欧文身上,...
评分一本独特的小说,牵扯一大串的人,事,而且糟糕的事(却没有坏人的故事),占了大部分,看了一大半才隐约的明白了“继续走过打开的窗口...”这句话的意思。我们生存的这个世界,就是那么让人无奈,不幸总是伴随着幸运发生,一转眼又像乌云般散去。根本没时间去想,或悔恨,该认...
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