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
Famous quotes containing the word cultural:
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)