Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave richly textured and carefully wrought world." - Stephen KingĪ Moral Parable for Our Times, Even if a Bit Preachy so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction-it is an amazingly brave piece of work. Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave richly textured and carefully wrought world." -Stephen King, "John Irving, who writes novels in the unglamorous but effective way Babe Ruth used to hit home runs, deserves a medal not only for writing this book but for the way he has written it. Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave richly textured and carefully wrought world." -Stephen King From the Hardcover edition., "John Irving, who writes novels in the unglamorous but effective way Babe Ruth used to hit home runs, deserves a medal not only for writing this book but for the way he has written it.A Prayer for Owen Meanyis a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction-it is an amazingly brave piece of work. "John Irving, who writes novels in the unglamorous but effective way Babe Ruth used to hit home runs, deserves a medal not only for writing this book but for the way he has written it.
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