The Hotel New Hampshire

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**Title** **The Hotel New Hampshire**
A paperback edition of The Hotel New Hampshire.
Author	John Irving
Cover artist	Terry Fehr
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Romantic novel
Publisher	E. P. Dutton
Released	1981
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	401 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-525-12800-X (first edition, hardback)
Preceded by	The World According to Garp
Followed by	The Cider House Rules

The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1981 coming of age novel by John Irving.

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One of the most prominent themes of this story is that of the unconventional brother-sister relationship. John falls in love with his sister—and even states that after her, no other woman could truly satisfy him. This relationship is accepted by his siblings; his older brother, after all, is gay, and his younger sister is a dwarf. Franny and John cure their lust and passion for each other by the particularly useful method of doing or taking something in excess to the point that you never want to experience that thing again. For them, that is the turning point of their lives, and their relationship. They move on, and their relationship once again becomes strictly brother-sister.

The novel is clearly descriptive and vivacious, set in rustic ambiance with a firm emphasis on nature and the outdoors of New Hampshire during Irving's childhood days that he spent there. The reader gets a feeling of all the sights, sounds, smells and tastes that the author had experienced in his real life and lulls one into love with the place with his humorous, uninhibited and explicit detailing skills. The author is boldly forthcoming about even the most embarrassing events and adventures that he encountered.

Among its many colorful characters is Susie the Bear, a girl who essentially lives her life in a bear mascot costume.