“A Prayer For Owen Meany” by John Irving. Hardcover

“A Prayer For Owen Meany” by John Irving • Hardcover • William, Morrow & Co., 1989 • 543 Pages Condition: Excellent. No Dust-Jacket ———————- 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. ———————— Reviews “A remarkable novel. . . . 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 "Among the very best American novels of our time." — Charlotte Observer "[A] great novel." — Dallas Morning News "A work of genius." — Independent (London) "A heartbreaking masterpiece of a novel." — Sunday Express (London) ——————————————- About the Author John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.