**"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
