{"product_id":"a-prayer-for-owen-meany-9780552993692","title":"A Prayer For Owen Meany","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Irving published his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times - winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. He also received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story 'Interior Space'. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules - a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel is Last Night in Twisted River.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI believe it to be a work of genius... because of its absolutely irrepressible flow of invention and suggestion, expressed in some of the most fascinating prose written in fiction today. Originality has distinguished all Mr Irving's books, but in \u003ci\u003eA Prayer For Owen Meany\u003c\/i\u003e it achieves a new pitch and a new profundity * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eMarvellously funny... What better entertainment is there than a serious book which makes you laugh? * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eSo extraordinary, so original, and so enriching * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eMay justly join the classic American list * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA heartbreaking masterpiece of a novel... tremendously ambitious and fiendishly clever -- Dominic Holland * Sunday Express *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738396438871,"sku":"9780552993692","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552993692.jpg?v=1720047863","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-prayer-for-owen-meany-9780552993692","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}