The Hotel New Hampshire | Characters
As in all of John Irving's work, the characters in The Hotel New Hampshire are memorably odd in one way or another. The characters more than the plot are the focal point of the novel because Irving chronicles the history of the Berry family from 1920, when Win Berry meets Mary Bates — who will be his wife — to 1980, by which point the three surviving Berry children are adults pursuing their own lives. (Egg, the youngest, is killed with his mother in a plane crash on the way to Vienna, and Lilly commits suicide by jumping from a window of the Stanhope Hotel when her second...
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