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A prayer for Owen Meaney

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A prayer for Owen Meaney
14.99 €

A tragicomic saga from the acclaimed author of "The World According to Garp" and "Hotel New Hampshire," "The Winemaker's Rules" and "Men Not Her Life," "Last Night on the Winding River" and "Son of the Circus," a panoramic burlesque akin in scope to Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" or Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." This story about a boy who has no doubts and who acquires a strange power over people and the course of things 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 Meaney, after accidentally killing his best friend's mother, brings him to God? Why does a falsetto-speaking, stubby, lop-eared child, like Christ, foresee his own 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."

How does Irving's novel portray Christ?

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