Prayer for Owen Meany

A tragicomic saga by John Irving, the greatest prose writer of our time, author of world-famous novels, among which are "The World According to Garp" and "Hotel New Hampshire," "The Cider House Rules" and "A Prayer for Owen Meany," "Last... Night in Twisted River" and "Son of the Circus." This is a panoramic burlesque, comparable in scope to Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" and Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." The story is about a boy who knows no doubts, who gains a strange power over people and the course of events. The book is full of mystical coincidences and mirror repetitions, which in turn reflect - sometimes ironically - the plot of the Gospel. How did it happen that eleven-year-old Owen Meany, accidentally killing his best friend's mother, comes to God? Why does the scrawny, big-eared child, like Christ, foresee his fate: he knows exactly when and how he will die. According to Stephen King, "no one has ever portrayed Christ as Irving does in his novel."