A Prayer For Owen Meany.
IRVING, John.
A Prayer For Owen Meany.
"I am a Christian Because of Owen Meany": First Edition of A Prayer For Owen Meany; Signed by John Irving
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
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First edition of the author’s seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
A Prayer for Owen Meany won high praise on publication for “Irving’s powerful storytelling, his gift for creating memorable characters, his humor and his elemental emotional power” (Chronology of American Literature). "Irving's powerful storytelling, his gift for creating memorable characters, his humor and his elemental emotional power stimulated critics to compare him to Charles Dickens" (Chronology of American Literature). "A rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late 20th-century fiction-it is an amazingly brave piece of work" (Stephen King).
