Page Turners: A pRayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

January finds both Page Turners groups settling in to our familiar routine of meeting monthly to discuss one of the ten books chosen last spring by the members. Our selection this month is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. The following are author Stephen King’s comments on this book: “John Irving, who writes novels in the unglamorous but effective way Babe Ruth used to hit home runs, deserves a medal not only for writing this book but for the way he has written it . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth century fiction—it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extraordinary, so original and so enriching . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave (this) richly textured and carefully wrought world.”
Meeting dates this month are Monday, January 27 and Thursday, January 30. For information on the Thursday group contact Steve and Ann Morris at samwrsi@cox.net and for the Monday group Frances at fozimec@cox.net.
—Frances Ozimec