A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: John Irving
• Title: A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Publisher: ‎ Ballantine Books; Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition (June 23, 1997)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 635 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0345417976
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0345417978
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.1 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.22 x 1.5 x 7.91 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show some minimal discoloration on page edges)
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

Synopsis:

“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. … 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

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.

About the Author:

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story "Interior Space."

In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules-a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

For more information about the author, please visit www.john-irving.com