A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062204092 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 627 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kevin Wohler said Best Book I've Read This Year. I started reading A Prayer for Owen Meany at the urging of a friend, part of our on-going reading program. She had just started the novel, and said it was funny and I would enjoy it. I never expected that it would move me so. John Irving has written a profound novel of faith, friendship, and fate.It took me one or two sections to understand Irving's . Added to my list of favorite books Firstly, don't let the religious theme that runs through this book put you off. Even if you are not a Christian hopefully you can still enjoy a well written novel. For example, while I am a Christian, I'm not a boy like the novel's protagonist, John Wheelwright and I still enjoyed this book.Secondly, pay close attention to everything that happens. Th. SheVandal said It's worth it. Do you believe in divine purpose, in fate, in destiny? Owen Meany was too good for this world. He was an instrument in the world, in his community, in the lives of his loved ones. And now he is a part of mine, too.John Irving is one of my all-time favorite authors. I love his descriptions and his in-depth involvement in his characters. The time he in
The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. 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. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. John Irvin