A Prayer for Owen Meany

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543 pp. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's seventh novel and the inspiration for the film Simon Birch starring Ian Michael Smith and Ashley Judd, is arguabl y his most popular work, and tells the story of a terrible accident and its aftermath. Owen Meany, after he fatally strikes his best friend's mother with a foul ball during a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, NH, believes he is a tool used by God. A bestseller and a modern classic widely read in schools, A Prayer for Owen Meany is rightly regarded as one of the great works of literature in the twentieth century. Show more