An Author's Highpoint

A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Originally published as hardcover, 1989 - William Morrow

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A lot of well-read people ascribe The World According to Garp as Irving's high point. And it is. But for me, Owen Meany is the book that made we want to try Irving's other works. (Many, but not them all.) Eccentric is probably not the right word, but I absolutely love the character development.


Amazon description - In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying.