A remarkable novel. -- ALFRED KAZIN, New York Times.
Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax. . . -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Brilliantly cinematic .
Quite stunning and very ambitious. . .
Dickensian in scope . . .
Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic .
What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
The boy who hits the ball doesn\'t believe in accidents
Owen Meany believes he is God\'s instrument.
One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy\'s mother.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. -- STEPHEN KING, Washington Post A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick 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.
Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world. . . . so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . .
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 . . . .
A remarkable novel
