![]() ![]() His first novel, Setting Free The Bears, was published in 1968. In One Person is John Irving’s thirteenth novel. Quite stunning" - Los Angeles Times"So extraordinary, so original, and so enriching" - Stephen King, The Washington Post#84 in ABC My Favourite Book tremendously ambitious and fiendishly clever" - Dominic Holland, Sunday Express"Intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic Dickensian in scope. What better entertainment is there than a serious book which makes you laugh?" - Spectator"So extraordinary, so original, and so enriching" - The Washington Post"May justly join the classic American list" - Observer"A heartbreaking masterpiece of a novel. Originality has distinguished all Mr Irving's books, but in A Prayer For Owen Meany it achieves a new pitch and a new profundity" - Independent"Marvellously funny. because of its absolutely irrepressible flow of invention and suggestion, expressed in some of the most fascinating prose written in fiction today. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying."I believe it to be a work of genius. Owen doesn't believe in accidents he believes he is God's instrument. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' 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. If you care about something you have to protect it. ![]()
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