Modlitba za Owena Meanyho - 3 CDmp3 (Čte David Novotný)

"For the faith I have within me, I owe thanks to Owen Meany, my childhood friend..." ***** A daily reminder of him is a way to survive misfortune. Life hermit John Wheelwright recites a colorful litany for his classmate, who was a mentor, a model of unpretentious virtues, and above all, an inseparable companion, intervening many times in his story and in the events of their hometown Gravesend. Judge for yourself what tremendous things the undersized messiah Owen Meany accomplished in the stagnant New England small town of the 1950s. Although he shrieks hauntingly and asserts himself in written debates with capital letters, it is worth not overlooking him. Not only does he articulate what hypocritical America will not dare to for a long time, but above all, he does not ask what the country can do for him, but what he can do for it... ***** A loosely modern yet gripping parallel with the martyr's life and legacy of Jesus Christ stands at the pinnacle of John Irving's work. With joy in storytelling, which rivals that of beloved Dickens in its vitality, the author depicts friendship that transcends the grave. None of us is an island; we must cling to one another and, in an era of hypocrites, believe only in what makes sense. In the "sweet" 1960s, whose ideas were stifled by the war in...