ISBN: 9780345361792 /Author: Irving, John /Publisher: Ballantine Books /Location: New York / Subject: Non-Classifiable /Literary /Fiction /Friendship /American fiction (fictional works by one author) /Copyright:1989 /Edition Description:Mass Market /Publication Date: November 1991 /Binding: Mass Market Paperbound /Language: English /Pages:617 ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* This is a used paperback copy in Good+ condition. Copy shows minimal edgewear, corner bumps, toned pages, but it is clean and tight. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* Publisher Comments: In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys — best friends — are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero. Review: "Superbly narrated sequences of comic action... Irving is particularly good at rendering the dynamics of things — he has a Dickensian ability to juxtapose and animate unpromising objects? [as in] the book's grand and brilliantly conceived final scene....You don't just read Irving, you listen to him." The New Republic Review: "Extraordinary, so original, and so enriching....A rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late 20th century fiction....Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." Stephen King, The Washington Post Book World Review: "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic....Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." Los Angeles Times Book ********************************************************************************************************************************************************** I accept payment in the form of postal money orders and personal checks. Personal checks must clear before book is mailed. P/h is $3.50 media mail USA and is a fixed cost and not otherwise as epier may indicate. Alaska and Hawaii extra. A small handling fee is included in cost of postage. Insurance of $1.70 is optional, but encouraged in order to cover loss or damage in the mail. I combine postage. Just ask! (IBX#9)******************************************************************************************************************************************************** International p/h will be determined at the end of auction. International payment must be in the form of cash only - USD, Euros, GBP or Scandinavian Krona

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