Das Hotel New Hampshire

Das Hotel New Hampshire


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Das Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving
Diogenes Verlag AG
1995-03
Gebundene Ausgabe
596 pages
Edition: 2. Aufl.

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30.09.2009 / MiHe1984 / Düsseldorf
Irving - Eindeutig ein Irving...
Eine Familiengeschichte die durch Unterhaltung, Humor und Skurrilitäten nicht zu übertreffen ist. Einmal mehr zeigt Irving eine klare Linie. Themen wie New England, Bären und Wien werden erneut aufgegriffen. Auch seine Art zu schreiben lässt einem nicht langweilig werden. Gespickt mit latenten Witze... [> more]


23.04.2009 / S. Hubert / Bayern
Familie Berry und der Bär in der Familie
Die Geschichte wird von John Berry erzählt. Er ist der mittlere von fünf Kinder,die in einer eher ungewöhnlichen Familie aufwachsen. Sie leben in dem Hotel New Hampshire, das eher schlecht besucht und zum Scheitern verurteilt ist. Danach gehen sie für sieben Jahre nach Europa, um dort ihr Glück mit... [> more]


27.02.2009 / T. Kitz / Germany
Ein Meisterwerk zwischen Komik und Tragik
Dieses Buch ist wirklich großartig. Es besitzt eine großartige, nicht vorhersehbare Geschichte, einen interessanten Sprachstil, in dem mitten im Plot Rückblenden verpackt werden, die nichts mit dem aktuell Erzählten zu tun haben, ohne das es störend wirkt und wunderbar differenzierte Charaktere. Für... [> more]


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About John Irving


John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers and many have been made into movies. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire where Irving grew up as the son of an Exeter faculty member, Colin F.N. Irving (1941), and nephew of another, H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929). (Both Irving and Bissell, and other members of the Exeter community, appear somewhat disguised in many of his novels.)

Irving was in the Exeter wrestling program both as a wrestler and as an assistant coach, and w...
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