Prayer for Owen Meany

Description: "P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover.

Brief description:

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning in 1980 for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Irving's most recent novel is In One Person (2012).

Review Quotes:

"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

"Exhilarating and darkly comic. ... Dickensian in scope. ... Stunning." - Los Angeles Times Book Review

"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

"Brilliantly cinematic . . . Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax. - ALFRED KAZIN, New York Times

"[A] great novel." - Dallas Morning News

"A work of genius." - Independent (London)

"A heartbreaking masterpiece of a novel." - Sunday Express (London)

"Among the very best American novels of our time." - Charlotte Observer