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A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving, PaperbackOriginal price was: $19.99.$16.99Current price is: $16.99.
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“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction–it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.”
— STEPHEN KING, Washington Post
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice–not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys–best friends–are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
“Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic . . . Dickensian in scope . . . Quite stunning and very ambitious.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Brilliantly cinematic . . . Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax. — ALFRED KAZIN, New York Times
Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: John Irving
Published: 04/03/2012
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
ISBN: 9780062204097
Pages: 627
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.20d
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Weight | 1 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.9 × 5.2 × 1.2 in |
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