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Prayer for Owen Meany

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Prayer for Owen Meany
6.99 €
The tragicomic saga of John Irving, the greatest novelist of our time, author of world-famous novels, including "The World Through Garp's Eyes" and "Hotel New Hampshire", "The Winemaker's Rules" and "Men Not Her Life", "Last Night on the Winding River" and "Son of the Circus". It's a panoramic burlesque similar in scope to Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" and Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." The story is about a boy who has no doubts and gains a strange power over people and the course of things. The book is full of mystical coincidences and mirror repeats, in turn repeating - sometimes ironically - the plot of the Gospel. How is it that eleven-year-old Owen Meany, after accidentally killing his best friend's mother, comes to God? Why does a puny, spiky-eared child, like Christ, foresee his fate: he knows exactly when and how he will die. According to Stephen King, "no one has ever shown Christ as Irving does in his novel."
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