A Prayer for Owen Meany

21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century

John Irving (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

656 Seiten

2007 | 21st Birthday Celebratory ed
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-9010-1 (ISBN)

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Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in literary history: Owen Meany, this title is presented with an introduction by Jan Morris.

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes that he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.

John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.1.2007
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury 21 ; Vol.2
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-7475-9010-9 / 0747590109
ISBN-13	978-0-7475-9010-1 / 9780747590101
Zustand	Neuware