We pray for Owen Meany (A Prayer for Owen Meany) is a novel by American writer John Irving, published for the first time in 1989. The I-person is John Wheelwright. He tells the story of his best friend Owen Meany, with whom he grows up in a small town in New Hampshire state in the 1950s and 60s of the 20th century. Owen is a remarkable boy: he is convinced that he is the instrument of God and that his destiny is once a hero's end.
The book is also a homage to a well-known novel by Günther Grass: The tin drum. Grass not only had a lot of influence on John Irving's work, but was also a good friend for him. The main characters of both novels, Owen Meany and Oskar Matzerath, have the same initials as well as some other features, and the stories show some parallels. Irving explicitly confirmed this in interviews and articles. "A Prayer for Owen Meany" is, however, primarily a completely independent story and in no way a copy of "The Cinder drum". Filming
The book's filming in 1998 was called Simon Birch, with Ian Michael Smith in the lead. The scenario does not exactly follow the story of the book. In particular, the end of the book is not included in the movie. The names of all characters in the novel have therefore changed in the movie.
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