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In the summer of 1953, two eleven-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. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created. A Prayer For Owen Meany was first published in 1989. “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“Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic . . . Dickensian in scope . . . Quite stunning and very ambitious.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

Who reads A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel?

Author

Irving, John

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679642596

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (692 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14