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Title: Surreal end Extraordinary
Review: A warning to readers of "A Prayer for Owen Meany": Throw out your expectations of John Irving. APFOW was a spectacular book, but very different from this one.A warning to more sensitive readers: Just because an author depicts disgusting or un-Christian behavior does not make him an advocate of it. Authors are both observers and commentators. Read the commentary as much as the events.That said, I have to comment myself that this is one of the finest books I have ever read. I believe that John Irving is one of the writers of the twentieth century who will be remembered long into the next one. His characters are bizzare to say the least, but he makes them real to us and never trivializes any of them. Irving has a wonderful sense of the comically tragic, as well as a unique perception of human fallibility. In the novel according to Irving, we are all terminal cases.
