Everything has meaning to him, who keeps saying that he is a tool of God. What is the mission given to Owen who was born in a slightly different appearance than others? The modern Gospel written by a master of American literature.

A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history, and God.One day, a tough fate struck my best friend, Owen, whose height was only about five years old, had an unforgettable voice once heard, and had an outstanding brain. The ball hit with a pinch hitter took the life of my beloved mother.

Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher GÃ¼nter Grass's The Tin Drum-the two characters share the same initials. The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy-from Vietnam to the Contras. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, 'fun with a purpose.' When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't cancel the fact that he was born to be martyred. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school's marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes-accurately-that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author. A Prayer for Owen Meany was first published in 1989. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying. The boy who hits the ball doesnâ€™t believe in accidents Owen Meany believes he is Godâ€™s instrument. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boyâ€™s mother.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boysâ€”best friendsâ€”are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire.

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