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The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving.
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One of a few modern best-selling writers who also has literary stature, John Irving (born 1942) rose to prominence in 1979 with his fourth novel, The World According to Garp. His novels have combined ...
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John Irving was born in Exeter, Massachusetts, the son of F. N. and Frances Winslow Irving. His father was a teacher of Russian history at Exeter Academy, the prep school which Irving attended during ...
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John Irving enjoys a rare and prominent place among contemporary American writers not only for having published a string of best-sellers but also for having received accolades from critics in the popu...
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In the following review, Beatty contrasts The Hotel New Hampshire with The World According to Garp.
It's extraordinary what a little feeling can do for a novel. To prepare for The Hotel New Ham...
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In the following review, Fuoroli offers praise for The Hotel New Hampshire.
Weak writers may repeat themselves in book after book, while great writers, often obsessed, reexamine their subjects persist...
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Critical Essay by Robert Towers
Again and again The Hotel New Hampshire disappointed me by the perfunctoriness of its situations and their handling. That quality of jokey contrivance which initially p...
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Critical Essay by Eric Korn
Lurching glumly to the end of this joyless romp [through The Hotel New Hampshire] the reviewer finds a surge of pejoratives to hand: narcissistic, ponderous, cute, brutal, ...
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Critical Essay by Charles Nicol
Success has neither spoiled nor improved Irving, though some have tried to make a case for the former. In truth, Hotel New Hampshire is the fifth in a reasonably straig...
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Critical Essay by Francis King
This exuberant, garrulous American novel [The Hotel New Hampshire] tells the story of a family of eccentrics. To me, eccentricity is seldom more than the acceptable face...
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Critical Essay by Eliot Fremont-smith
Only an oaf or a meanie could not be touched by a novel as eager and bumptious and cuddly as John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire…. It's she...
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Critical Essay by Scot Haller
As usual novelist John Irving is telling a story [in The Hotel New Hampshire]. As usual, it's an episode marked with impending violence, unending hopelessness, off...
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Critical Essay by Robertson Davies
There is something of Byron about John Irving. Not only is it that he woke after the publication of The World According to Garp to find himself famous, but the extre...
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Critical Essay by James Atlas
"The Hotel New Hampshire," the story of an eccentric family that sets up house in various unlikely hotels here and abroad, is a hectic gaudy saga with the v...
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Critical Essay by Gene Lyons
[There] is no denying that [John Irving] has at least one thing in common with … Twain and Dickens: he can tell stories. Things happen in The Hotel New Hampshire; i...
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Critical Essay by Benjamin Demott
[John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire is] a family chronicle—a tale of generations of parents coping with children and siblings coping with each other&...
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Teaching The Hotel New Hampshire
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