A Prayer for Owen Meany

543 pp. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's seventh novel and the inspiration for the film Simon Birch starring Ian Michael Smith and Ashley Judd, is arguably his most popular work, and tells the story of a terrible accident and its aftermath. Owen Meany, after he fatally strikes his best friend's mother with a foul ball during a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, NH, believes he is a tool used by God. A bestseller and a modern classic widely read in schools, A Prayer for Owen Meany is rightly regarded as one of the great works of literature in the twentieth century.