A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - 1989

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Very good condition. Minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. BOARDS: Very small tear to foot of spine. BOOK: Very good condition. Very light foxing to textblock head. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of John Irving's seventh novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, his all-time bestselling work as per Simon & Schuster publishers. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing published by William Morrow in 1989. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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" 'A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... 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

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.

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.

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"

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John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the 72nd Academy Awards (1999) for his script of The Cider House Rules.

Five of his novels have been adapted into films (Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow). Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, Widow) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire.

The above text was taken from, respectively, HarperCollins publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.