Verlag | Random House UK |
Auflage | 1982 |
Seiten | 544 |
Format | 12,7 x 19,8 x 3,2 cm |
B-Format | |
Gewicht | 366 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0552992097 |
EAN | 9780552992091 |
Bestell-Nr | 55299209EA |
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.
Klappentext:
'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.
Rezension:
A hectic gaudy saga with the verve of a Marx Brothers movie The New York Times Book Review