| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780345417978 | | Publisher: Ballantine Books | | Publish Date: 5/1/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 30050291 | | Item#: R5KR76 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 80100 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.5L x 1.25T |
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| | | 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.
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Owen Meany, the dwarf son of a quarry worker in New Hampshire, accidentally kills his best friend's mother with a baseball when he hits it into the stands at a Little League game. Meany subsequently becomes a mystic who believes he is an instrument of God.
| PraiseWashington Post Book World
"Extraordinary, so original, and so enriching...A rare creation in the somehow exhausted work of late twentieth-century fiction...Readers will come to the end sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." - Stephen King |
| Author Bio| John Irving | | Irving attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where his stepfather was a teacher of Russian history. More interested in wrestling than in his studies (he is now a member of the Wrestling Hall of Fame), Irving attended three colleges (including a brief stay in Vienna) before graduating in 1965 from the University of New Hampshire. In 1967 he received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Irving's fourth novel, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP (1968), was a resounding success, as was the 1982 film based on it. Irving's novels have often been compared to those of Dickens: both writers utilize inventive storytelling, bizarre characters, broad humor, and huge helpings of sentimentality. Married in 1964, Irving had two sons with his wife, Shyla Leary; they divorced in 1982, and in 1987 he married again, to Janet Turnbull, a literary agent, with whom he has another son. |
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