A Prayer For Owen Meany

Author(s): John Irving

Fiction

Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and spine. Older coloured newsprint. 


Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018


Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)


Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended.


In the summer of 1953, two 11-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 and terrifying.


As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of John Irvin's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.


Product Information

A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.

General Fields

  • : 9780552993692
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : 0.515
  • : February 1999
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 34mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Irving
  • : Paperback
  • : 9004
  • : English
  • : 813/.54
  • : 640
  • : FA