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A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Hotel New Hampshire The Cider House Rules and the World According to Garp by Irving, John 0345361792 paperback. In good to very good condition Light wear creasing age toned book store stamps W1 27 March 2022 revised 26 April 2022

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Narrative Type
Fiction
Era
1950s
Author
John Irving
Vintage
Yes
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Features
Dust Jacket
Topic
Fasting, Books
Ex Libris
No
Intended Audience
Adults
Publication Year
1959
Genre
Modern & Contemporary

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2.5 cm
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0.3 kg

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4 out of 5 stars
by 1130jagg05 Oct, 2021
Great book on reread 20 years later
I loaned out my copy years ago and it never came back. Happy to have this. One of his better novels. The print is pretty small in this edition.
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5 out of 5 stars
by bananamaebrown26 Jul, 2012
You'll not soon forget Owen Meany
I've read everything John Irving's written and believe me, I love this author. He said his last book was the one he was supposed to write, and who could disagree? But I believe that A Prayer for Owen Meany is the one he was meant to write. It is truly astounding. It will draw you in like a magnet, and you'll find yourself barely able to put it down. I'd suggest a pot of coffee, a comfortable chair, and then sit back and be swept away. Owen Meany is not a character you'll soon forget. He and his story are truly a gift to any reader. You'll want to lend the book to friends, because once you've read it, you'll want everyone else to read it too. It's that good. It just is.
5 out of 5 stars
by wendylynngo22 Oct, 2007
I Love Owen Meany
I just finished this book yesterday. I couldn't put it down. The storyteller of the book (who is a main character) goes into alot of detail that I skimmed over - regarding The Church and regarding The Vietnam War. I think that most of those passages were the author's personal view and had no real impact on the story. It is a rather long book - because there are so many storylines going on at the same time. The characters have obvious and hidden relationships with each other. You have to "stay on your toes" when you read this book so you don't miss anything! I highly recommend it!
5 out of 5 stars
by theestatepreser...08 Feb, 2009
A Moral Parable for Our Times, Even if a Bit Preachy
John Irvings' novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" is a meditation on literature, history, and God. The book develops a convincing appraisal of Vietnam through a subtext of religious philosophizing. Irving's uses his protagonist Owen Meany as a latter-day prophet, or Christ-like figure, who dies a martyr after having inspired true Christian belief in his friend, and the story's narrator, Johnny Wheelwright. The book's countless subplots expand Irving's moral argument. Owen Meany is a diminutive boy and social outcast with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mother with a baseball. The event convinces him that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. Several of the scenes within the book provide seasoning for the narrative: the doltish headmaster driving a Volkswagen down the school's marble staircase and the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. When Owen plays baby Jesus, and when he glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting "A Christmas Carol," the humor amplifies the fact that he was born to be martyred. Though Owen Meany is a compelling character, his power over the rest of Irving's cast is not entirely convincing. Still, readers will be drawn in by the story of the boys' friendship and by the desire to see some resolution to Johnny's numerous mysteries. "A Prayer for Owen Meany," which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is perhaps the most mystic Christian novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will recognize much within the plot: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator, and the rough, sometimes slapstick comedy. Some readers will little doubt find the book preachy, but as a parable for our times, it serves a good purpose.Read full review
4 out of 5 stars
by mekamolly03 Jun, 2020
Typeface to small
I like the book, but the typeface is so small it's very difficult to read. They should have made the book larger. I'm not sure I can finish it because it's a strain on my eyes.
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Great book on reread 20 years later

You'll not soon forget Owen Meany

I Love Owen Meany

A Moral Parable for Our Times, Even if a Bit Preachy

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