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A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers.

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´If you care about something you have to protect it. 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. Owen doesn´t believe in accidents; he believes he is God´s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.

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"I believe it to be a work of genius...because of its absolutely irrepressible flow of invention and suggestion, expressed in some of the most fascinating prose written in fiction today. 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

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John Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story ´Interior Space´. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.

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