A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author(s): John Irving
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes that he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.
Product Information
John Irving's books have sold millions worldwide and include The World According to Garp, A Widow for One Year, The Cider House Rules and Until I Find YouPublished as part of the Bloomsbury 21st Birthday Celebrations Includes reading group guide
'May justly join the classic American list' Anthony Burgess, Observer 'So extraordinary, so original, and so enriching' Stephen King, Washington Post 'I believe it to be a work of genius some of the most fascinating prose written in fiction today' Jan Morris, Independent 'Intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic Dickensian in scope Quite stunning' Los Angeles Times
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 02 January 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 656
- : 21st Birthday Celebratory ed
- : Paperback
- : John Irving
