Owen Meany

Owen Meany


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John Irving

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Owen Meany
John Irving
Diogenes
1990
Gebundene Ausgabe

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01.02.2010 / Dunja Baaten-Merkes
Owen Meany-Mein Lieblingsbuch
Owen Meany handelt von der bewegenden Freundschaft zwischen John Wheelwright, der die Geschichte auch erzählt, und Owen Meany, dem kleingewachsenen, außergewöhnlichen Jungen mit der durchdringenden Fistelstimme.
Diese beide Jungen durchleben ihre Kindheit und Jugend in dem Amerika der 50er und... [> more]


07.10.2009 / Mag Sarah Krampl / Villach
Die Stimme der Kritik
Der US amerikanische Romanautor John Irving (geboren am 2. März 1942 in New Hampshire) hat in diesem Roman die wundervolle Figur des Owen Meany geschaffen, die Stimme der Kritik und des Gewissens der amerikanischen Gesellschaft von den 60 Jahren bis zu den 80 Jahren. Ein Merkmal von Irvings Romane i... [> more]


15.08.2009 / Prometheus / Wien
A Prayer for Owen Meany / Ein Gebet für Owen Meany...
..ist der englischsprachige Titel dieses Ausnahmebuchs, das der Hauptperson Owen Meany bereits im Titel Ehre erweist. In der Tat sind die mehr als 850 Seiten ein Loblied auf eine der liebevollsten Gestalten der modernen Literatur - geschrieben von Owen Meanys Freund John, dessen Leben zwischen 1952... [> more]


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About John Irving


John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers and many have been made into movies. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire where Irving grew up as the son of an Exeter faculty member, Colin F.N. Irving (1941), and nephew of another, H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929). (Both Irving and Bissell, and other members of the Exeter community, appear somewhat disguised in many of his novels.)

Irving was in the Exeter wrestling program both as a wrestler and as an assistant coach, and w...
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