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I read a great deal, but I've never read a book that moved me more. In fact, this is the first adult novel I've read 4 times! After all of that, I still enjoyed it even more the 4th time around. The characters are so rich, quirky, and relatable in their way. Owen and John are frozen forever in my head - and my views of religion, politics, and the very meaning of life were probably altered a bit having enjoyed this book so thoroughly. Having grown up in a small town, I completely understand the dynamics of a small town, the politics and personalities behind a church Christmas Pageant, and the struggles of "coming of age" in such a community. It is one of the only books that once I finished, I desperately wanted to talk about it with others -- it is THAT GOOD. I like many of Irving's books (and even dislike a few of the more modern ones), but without a doubt - this has been my favorite all time book since 1994 - going on 16 years now. I would let any friend or loved one borrow it if they were interested. Everyone who ever grew up in America, Canada, or appreciates small town life in any country, should read this book.
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"A Prayer for Owen Meany" Overview
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.
This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious."
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"John Irving is an abundantly and even joyfully talented storyteller."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKR EVIEW
"A Prayer for Owen Meany" Specifications
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. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school's marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose." When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't cancel the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
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. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history, and God. --Tim Appelo
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