A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Novel
On Sale: 04/03/2012
Price: $19.99
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Novel
On Sale: 04/03/2012
Format:
Price: $19.99
About the Book
“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... 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
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.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Critical Praise
“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
“The magic of A Prayer for Owen Meany is that it forces us into a confrontation with our own carapaces of skepticism . . . It is a brave and subtly disturbing affirmation of faith, and it is all the more remarkable for its engagement with the deepest questions, the most painful mysteries of our lives.” — Los Angeles Times
"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)
-Product Details
- ISBN: 9780062204097
- ISBN 10: 0062204092
- Imprint: Mariner Books Classics
- On Sale: 04/03/2012
- Trimsize: 5.310 in (w) x 8.000 in (h) x 1.050 in (d)
- Pages: 656
- List Price: $19.99
- BISAC1 : FICTION / Classics
- BISAC2 : FICTION / Literary
- BISAC3 : FICTION / Christian / General