A Prayer for Owen Meany
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780345417978
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction / Literary; General
First sentence: 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.
Description: 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.
(back cover)
Notes: Ballantine Reader's Circle
US edition