Cultural References
California punk rock band Lagwagon based the song "Owen Meaney" from their 1998 album Let's Talk About Feelings on the book.
The band Jimmy Eat World also based the song "Goodbye Sky Harbor" from their 1999 album Clarity on the book.
The Danish band Nephew mentions Owen Meany in their song, "Swimming Time," from their debut album, Swimming Time--("stacking all the books, sampling Owen Meany").
In the movie Milk Money, the elementary school is named Owen Meany Elementary.
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson has passed out this book to his team in the past as part of his ritual of assigning readings to players.
Read more about this topic: A Prayer For Owen Meany
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“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true masculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven’t been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren’t being manly enough.”
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