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A prayer for owen meany by john irving5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “If I haven’t already written the ending-and I mean more than a rough draft-I can’t write the first sentence.” “I never write the first sentence until I know all the important things that happen in the story, especially-and I mean exactly-what happens at the end of the novel,” he wrote after the book was published. Irving always writes the ends of his novels first, and Owen Meany was no different: He wrote the penultimate paragraph of the novel first, and added the last paragraph two days later. The first sentence of A Prayer for Owen Meany is John Irving’s favorite. ![]() Here are a few things you might not have known about it. Author John Irving’s novel about a boy with a “wrecked voice” who believes he’s an instrument of God is a staple on high school summer reading lists. ![]()
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