<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First Dutton trade paperback printing"--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of <i>The World According to Garp</i>.</b> <p/>"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 a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of <i>A Prayer for Owen Meany </i>and<i> Last Night in Twisted River</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A hectic, gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie."--<i>The New York Times Book Review <p/></i>"A startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment."--<i>Time</i> <p/>"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world. . . . You must read this book."<i>--Los Angeles Times<br></i><br>"Spellbinding . . . intensely human . . . a high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."--<i>Cosmopolitan</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>John Irving</b> has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel <i>The World According to Garp</i>. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for <i>The Cider House Rules</i>--a film with seven Academy Award nominations.</p>
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