約翰·歐文(John Irving),被美國文壇泰鬥馮內古特喻為“美國最重要的幽默作傢”,是當代最知名的小說傢之一,他作品中所呈現的高超的說故事技巧與優美的文學性,使人們常將他與狄更斯和J. D. 塞林格等重量級小說傢相提並論。他的小說不僅贏得書評界的一緻推崇,而且叫好又叫座,是西方最暢銷的小說傢之一。
"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 A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
"Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."
--Time
"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."
--Los Angeles Times
"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."
--Cosmopolitan
村上春树在一次长篇访谈中,曾经提到过对他的小说创作产生影响的一批海外作家。这些赫赫有名的作家包括:司科特•菲茨杰拉德、雷蒙德•卡佛、塞林格、杜鲁门•卡波特、雷蒙德•钱德勒,当然还有约翰•欧文。 对于约翰•欧文,村上在最早读了他的《盖普眼中的世界》...
評分一直很喜欢欧文的书,虽然他写的每个故事都是以数百页计的重量级超长篇,但读到最后一段却不觉得累,因为你能从他通篇轻松幽默的叙述中感觉到源源不断的力量和生机。 我想有一句古诗可以是《新罕布什尔旅馆》这本书的态度的最好注解,行到水穷处,坐看云起时。即便遭遇最险恶的...
評分“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” “Keep passing the open windows.” “You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.” “Safer than we are.” I tol...
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