The Hotel New Hampshire (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Irving
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, New York City, 1940’s, New England, Incest, Rape, Death or dying, Hotels, motels, or inns, Terrorism or terrorists, Austria or Austrians, Bears
- Locales: New York, NY, Vienna, Austria, Maine, New Hampshire
It is a miracle of novel writing that, once a financially successful and comprehensive novel has been published, the novelist can come up with yet another. The critics are always ready to pounce, and the drain of ideas from the previous novel is bound to tell on the imagination of the next. Irving wrote The Hotel New Hampshire in a remarkably short time, given the notoriety of his previous hit and claims on his time from filmmakers and interviewers. Large in scope and covering two continents, it does not stint in imagination, but it does make use of the groundwork of the others....
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