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A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

In this novel, John Wheelwright narrates the story of his childhood and adolescence, detailing his close friendship with Owen Meany, a boy who possesses an uncanny ability to predict events and whose religious beliefs are both intriguing and unsettling. The narrative delves into the complexities of faith and the impact of extraordinary experiences on personal growth and understanding. The story is set in the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting the social and cultural context of the time. more

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John Irving
John Irving

John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

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“Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.”

“One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.”