Modern Library (Hardcover): A Prayer for Owen Meany (Hardcover)

from agnesmack

When I finished this book I felt very confident that I enjoyed reading it more than I have any other book this year. As I added it to my spreadsheet and read through the other books I've read this year, I realized that probably isn't true, but nonetheless I did love this book. The narrator is Joh...

from browner56

Faith and doubt, pre-destination and choice, symbols and reality, truth and deception: These could easily be the themes of an author writing in the 1800s, but this novel is quite decidedly a product of the late twentieth century (e.g., protracted musings on the Viet Nam war and the Iran-Contra af...

from jayne_charles

This is a book I found tough to read, but it's worth ploughing through. It really improves as it progresses and adds up to a highly satisfying and memorable whole. It has all the hallmarks of an Irving novel that I like - fantastically original, smart characterisation and some great witty prose. ...

from GrileyStudentBG

A Prayer for Owen Meany was a book that I literally could not put down, the second I opened it. From a little bit of research, I have learned that John Irving suffered from Dyslexia, and it is apparent that he took special care in making sure that his novel was very clearly readable. Because of t...

from audreya2

The first sentence of the book is a zinger: "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 Christia...