3.9
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention
AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)VIETNAM WAR, 1961-1975_FICTIONFRIENDSHIP_FICTIONNEW HAMPSHIRE_FICTIONFICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL
RELEASED1989
PUBLISHERWilliam Morrow & Co
LENGTH543
LANGUAGEEN
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. ([source][1]) [1]: http://john-irving.com/john-irving-bio/
3.9
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention
AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)VIETNAM WAR, 1961-1975_FICTIONFRIENDSHIP_FICTIONNEW HAMPSHIRE_FICTIONFICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL
RELEASED1989
PUBLISHERWilliam Morrow & Co
LENGTH543
LANGUAGEEN
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. ([source][1]) [1]: http://john-irving.com/john-irving-bio/