A crucial moment comes when one character hits a baseball which kills John's mother, and the climax occurs in an Arizona airport where the main character saves the lives of several Vietnamese children.
A significant event in this novel is the destruction of a Statue of the Virgin Mary, while one character avoids the draft by having his finger cut off by a granite saw. The two major characters spend most of the novel practicing "The Shot" wherein one character lifts the other to be able to dunk a basketball. Despite John Wheelwright having feelings for his cousin, his best friend is the one she ends up falling in love with. A crucial moment comes when one character hits a baseball which kills John's mother, and the climax occurs in an Arizona airport where the main character saves the lives of several Vietnamese children. FTP, what is this novel by John Irving, poorly adapted into the movie Simon Birch?
A significant event in this novel is the destruction of a Statue of the Virgin Mary, while one character avoids the draft by having his finger cut off by a granite saw.
{A Prayer for Owen Meany}