| Genre: | Fiction |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | January 06, 1999 |
| Edition: | 7th |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780552992091 |
| ISBN10: | 0552992097 |
| Pages: | 520 |
| Dimensions: | 5.0 x 7.8 x 1.34 inches |
| Weight: | 365.71 g |
About the Book
“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 Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.