'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.'
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. 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.
ISBN: | 9780552992091 |
Publication date: | 22nd October 1982 |
Author: | John Irving |
Publisher: | Black Swan an imprint of Transworld |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 542 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Family Drama |