Literary
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A man looks back on growing up in a New Hampshire town with his best friend Owen, a tiny boy with a strange voice who believes he is an instrument of God. Their friendship is bound up with a freak accident.
- First published
- 1989
- Pace
- medium
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like big, comic and spiritual novels about friendship, faith and fate.
Skip this if you want a light read; it is long, digressive and has a lot to say about Vietnam and politics.
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