A review by bbrassfield
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

5.0

A reference on tonight's Daily Show reminded me that I'd never updated my goodreads site to include this, my favorite John Irving novel. Is Owen Meany his best work? No, that would be The Cider House Rules, but Owen Meany will forever occupy a special place in my heart because this novel is Irving's most emotionally engaging story. The characters of Owen and Johnny resonate with the reader because they do so to a great degree with their creator. Like all Irving novels, A Prayer for Owen Meany is quirky, a little whacked, somewhat improbable and utterly impossible to put down. If you read carefully you'll also touch upon some important questions that confront most people at one point or another in their lives, questions of love and friendship, and faith (or disbelief) in supernatural religion, all wrapped up in a often funny, moving narrative. Not to be missed.