«A Prayer for Owen Meaney» is a novel with a double bottom: by the middle of the voluminous volume, the unpretentious story of two boys — Johnny and his friend, frail baby Owen — suddenly turns into a modernized version of the gospel.
«A Prayer for Owen Meaney» is a novel with a double bottom: by the middle of the voluminous volume, the unpretentious story of two boys — Johnny and his friend, frail baby Owen — suddenly turns into a modernized version of the gospel. Shorty Owen Meany takes on the traits of a new Savior, and the faithful Johnny is assigned the role of an apostle. A touching and fascinating story about the childhood, youth and early death of the modern Messiah allows you to look at the problems of good and evil, holiness and sin from a new angle — through the prism of a boyish soul on its way from infancy to maturity.
Foreigner, 832 p.