A Prayer For Owen Meany
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust Jacket with intact price point. First trade edition. Mylar cover included.
“Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”
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 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.
*Challenged for its “stance on religion and criticism of the US government regarding the Vietnam War and Iran-Contra.”
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust Jacket with intact price point. First trade edition. Mylar cover included.
“Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”
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 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.
*Challenged for its “stance on religion and criticism of the US government regarding the Vietnam War and Iran-Contra.”
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust Jacket with intact price point. First trade edition. Mylar cover included.
“Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”
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 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.
*Challenged for its “stance on religion and criticism of the US government regarding the Vietnam War and Iran-Contra.”
ISBN 0-688-07708-0
John Irving
1989