John serves as the narrator, and is sweet, if naive. But he is unsatisfied and dreaming of something better.īrash, self-confident beauty Franny is the object of John's adoration. He then returns to Dairy and teaches at the local second-rate boys' prep school he attended, the Dairy School. By summer's end, the teens are engaged, and Win buys Freud's bear and motorcycle and travels the country performing to raise money to go to Harvard, which he subsequently attends while Mary starts their family. There, they meet a Viennese Jew named Freud who works at the resort as a handyman and entertainer, performing with his pet bear, State o' Maine Freud comes to symbolize the magic of that summer for them. The parents, both from the small town of Dairy, New Hampshire (presumably based on Derry, New Hampshire), fall in love while working at a summer resort hotel in Maine as teenagers. This novel is the story of the Berrys, a quirky New Hampshire family composed of a married couple, Win and Mary, and their five children, Frank, Franny, John, Lilly, and Egg. The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1981 coming of age novel by American writer John Irving, his fifth published novel.
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