I got the sense that his frustration was, 'People don't talk like that young people don't talk like that too eccentric, too weird, too forced.' Anderson's notched-up, alter-reality - which I adore - made no sense to him. He tried The Royal Tenenbaums, he tried Rushmore (two of my favourites), and he gave up.

My movie-buff father confessed to me earlier this year that he 'just doesn't get' Wes Anderson. 36.My only previous John Irving experience was reading The World According to Garp as a teenager, which I hazily remember being fun - though it didn't lead me to more John Irving. As for The Hotel New Hampshire, here are four seemingly-unrelated thoughts:ġ. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they 'dream on' in this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.

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. 9780552992091 The Hotel New Hampshire 36.8000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

'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.'

The hotel new hampshire by john irving