The Washington Post, March 5th, 1989
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY By John Irving Morrow. 543 pp. $19.95 IT IS PROBABLY not my job to wonder if John Irving has set himself up for a colossal critical pasting by writing A Prayer for Owen Meany, but I would be less than honest if I did not begin by saying the idea had occurred to me. Somewhere in the back of my mind I could hear a chorus of intellectual groans: "Not another Christ figure!" Not to worry. The hero of John Irving's seventh novel (and he is a hero; Irving begins by quoting Leon Bloy: "Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig") isn't just a Christ figure; he appears to be a bl...
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