A Prayer for Owen Meany Contributor(s): Irving, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062204092 ISBN-13: 9780062204097 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Christian - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 990(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (1.00 lbs) 656 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 05/11/2012 pg. 73 Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 28546 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 42.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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." 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Irving, John: - John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning in 1980 for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Irving's most recent novel is In One Person (2012). |
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