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A Prayer for Owen Meany is the seventh novel by American writer John Irving. Published in 1989, it tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New Hampshire town during the 1950s and 1960s.
- John Irving
- 617
- 1989
- March 1989
Preghiera per un amico è il settimo romanzo dello scrittore statunitense John Irving. Pubblicato nel 1989, racconta la storia di due ragazzi, John Wheelwright e il suo migliore amico Owen Meany, e della loro infanzia e gioventù trascorsa insieme in una piccola città del New Hampshire negli anni '50 e '60. Owen è descritto dall ...
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- John Irving
Simon Birch is a 1998 American comedy-drama film loosely based on the 1989 novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and written for the screen and directed by Mark Steven Johnson in his directorial debut. The film stars Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Jim Carrey, Ashley Judd, and Oliver Platt.
- $20 million
- Marc Shaiman
- September 11, 1998
Owen Meany (1989; Originaltitel: A Prayer for Owen Meany) ist der siebte Roman des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers John Irving. Er beschreibt die Kindheit und das Erwachsenwerden zweier Jungen aus sehr unterschiedlichen Familien im Amerika der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre.
The narrative of A Prayer for Owen Meany does not follow a perfect chronology, as John pieces together the story he wants to tell. Owen is a bizarre child. A tiny dwarf, he has weirdly luminous skin and an ethereally nasal voice (represented in the novel in all-capital letters).
- John Irving
- 1989
1 mag 2001 · A Prayer for Owen Meany. John Irving. Knopf Canada, May 1, 2001 - Fiction - 656 pages. “I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the...
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel - John Irving - Google Books. John Irving. Modern Library, 2002 - Fiction - 641 pages. John Irving's seventh novel begins in 1953, as Owen Meany and his best...