Prayer for Owen Meany

. . . 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 PostA PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickI 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."Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic . . . Dickensian in scope . . . Quite stunning and very ambitious." - Los Angeles Times Book Review"Brilliantly cinematic . . . Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax." - ALFRED KAZIN, New York Times