Das Hotel New Hampshire

john irving hans hermann

Eine gefühlvolle Familiengeschichte, in der motorradfahrende und feministische Bären, weiße Vergewaltiger und schwarze Rächer, ein Wiener Hotel voller Huren und Anarchisten, ein Familienhund mit Flatulenz im Endstadium, Arthur Schnitzler, Moby Dick, der große Gatsby, Gewichtheber, Geschwisterliebe und Freud vorkommen nicht der Freud, sondern Freud der Bärenführer.

Genres fictioncontemporaryclassicsliteratureliterary fictionnovelsamericanhumorthe united states of americaadult fiction

608 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1981

Literary awards

national book award finalist,

Places

new hampshire, vienna, new york city new york,

This edition

Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1984 by Diogenes Verlag
ISBN: 9783257211948
ASIN: 3257211945
Language: German

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About the author

john irving

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 novel The 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 for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In 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, is A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.