A Prayer For Owen Meany.

IRVING, John.

Item Number: 2217

New York: Morrow, 1989.

First edition of the author’s seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by the author, “Merry Christmas John Irving” on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear to the crown and foot of the spine.

A Prayer for Owen Meany won high praise on publication for “Irving’s powerful storytelling, his gift for creating memorable characters, his humor and his elemental emotional power” (Chronology of American Literature). "Irving's powerful storytelling, his gift for creating memorable characters, his humor and his elemental emotional power stimulated critics to compare him to Charles Dickens" (Chronology of American Literature). "A rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late 20th-century fiction-it is an amazingly brave piece of work" (Stephen King).