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Summary

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY (Ballantine Books, $6.99) is written with the natural grace few modern fiction writers are able to engineer. With Irving's guidance, the story unfolds, unimpeded by any expectation on the reader's part, because it takes only a few paragraphs to realize Owen Meany is unlike anybody the celebrated author has written before. The story is fresh, genuine, nonsensibly New England, classic Irving.