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The Hotel New Hampshire by John IrvingRead about the other entries on the list.
I became an Irving convert with The World According to Garp, the novel that preceded this one. But I loved The Hotel New Hampshire too, especially for its refrain "Sorrow floats," which, like the "Under Toad" repeatedly mentioned in Garp, becomes a compelling, illuminating shorthand for certain feelings we have about the ways of this world.
The Hotel New Hampshire is among Mark Watson's top ten hotel novels.
--Marshal Zeringue