A Prayer for Owen Meany
Novel by John Irving
Originally published: March 1989
Author: John Irving
Genres: Novel, Bildungsroman, Psychological Fiction, and more
Cover artist: Honi Werner
Pages: 617
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A Prayer for Owen Meany is the seventh novel by American writer John Irving. Published in 1989, it tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend ...
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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.
Meany reveals a shocking fact: he claims that Owen was a virgin birth, just like Jesus Christ. He tells John that he told Owen this when Owen was about eleven-- ...
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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 ...
Feb 27, 2024 · In John Irving …personalities beset by tragedy, and A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989; adapted as the film Simon Birch, 1998), about the effects ...
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A Prayer for Owen Meany “A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, ...
Owen Meany is a character in a book who believes he is God's instrument. This belief is put to the test when, during a Little League baseball game, he hits a ...
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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 ...
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Wear your book on your sleeve! Owen Meany's stuffed armadillo and all-CAPS type for John Irving's 1989 novel. Based on an original drawing by Jane Mount.