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Prayer for Owen Meany

I owe the faith I have in myself to Owen Meany, my childhood friend...

Remembering him every day is a way to survive in the face of adversity. Lifelong hermit John Wheelwright recites a colourful litany for the schoolmate who was his mentor in his calf years, a model of uncommon virtue and, above all, an inseparable partner, so many times interfering with his story and the events in his native Gravesend. Judge for yourself what tremendous things the undersized messiah Owen Meany did in a staid New England small town in the 1950s. Although it squeaks scarily and is promoted in written debates in capital letters, it is not worth overhearing. Not only does he say what hypocritical America will not dare to say for a long time, but above all he asks not what the country can do for him, but what he can do for it...
A thoroughly modern yet haunting parallel to the martyred life and legacy of Jesus Christ stands at the pinnacle of John Irving's work. With a joy of storytelling whose vividness is not unlike that of the beloved Dickens, the author depicts a friendship beyond the grave. No one is an island, we have to stick together and in an era of hypocrites, only believe in what makes sense. In the "sweet" 60s, whose ideas were killed off by the Vietnam War, this will be shown in full nakedness.

They wrote about the book

"An extraordinary revelation in the somewhat whispered prose of the late 20th century. Bold, subtle and so ennobling that the reader doesn't even want to go back to reality."

Stephen King, The Washington Post

"This prayer makes a distinction between instilled faith and what we should really believe. Owen understands himself as an instrument of God and knows what he will not miss - as if he has been with us all his life just for that last moment."

The Guardian

"The writer's masterpiece presents an unbridled prophet, a combative plot, and a central idea that is not to be taken lightly."

Time

"The sentiment is admitted by the author without prevarication and remains touchingly pure. Something like this was only mastered by the greats of the 19th century. Judged, then, by their Old World language: Irving described the noble hopes of heroes with an immeasurable resilience that makes us shudder."

The New York Times Book Review

About the author
John Irving

An American writer of the successful middle generation, Blunt's own name was John Wallace Blunt, who was born in the state of New Hampshire, which has often been an inspiration in his works. He studied at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Vienna and earned his degree in Iowa, where he attended a creative writing course. This led him to teach 19th century English literature. His first three books failed to make an impression on readers (Free the Bears, The Drinking Cure, The Hundred and Fifty-Eight Pound Marriage), and it wasn't until his fourth novel that he rose to prominence among the world's most popular authors. The World According to Garp, 1978), where the protagonist, the writer Garp, deals with the fear of his sons, The Hotel New Hampshire, 1981) describes the fate of one family and the theme of bears, circus performers. In The Cider House Rules (1985), Irving tells the story of an orphanage director and addresses the issue of abortion and its legalization in the USA. His books have been made into films and he received an Oscar for his screenplay for the film The Cider House Rules. His hobbies besides writing include wrestling in which he became a coach.