OTHER WORKS
 
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 Also by John Irving
 
 FICTION
 
 In One Person
 
 Last Night in Twisted River
 
 Until I Find You
 
 The Fourth Hand
 
 A Widow for One Year
 
 A Son of the Circus
 
 Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
 
 The Cider House Rules
 
 The Hotel New Hampshire
 
 The World According to Garp
 
 The 158-Pound Marriage
 
 The Water-Method Man
 
 Setting Free the Bears
 
 NONFICTION
 
 My Movie Business
 
 The Imaginary Girlfriend
 
 SCREENPLAYS
 
 The Cider House Rules
 
 CREDITS
 
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 Cover design by James Iacobelli
 
 Cover photograph © by Judy Kennamer/Arcangel Images
 
 COPYRIGHT
 
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 A Prayer for Owen Meany is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
 
 The first chapter of this work appeared in The New Yorker in slightly different form.