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“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. … An amazingly brave piece of work … so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.” –STEPHEN KING, Washington Post
I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice–not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys–best friends–are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany, one of literary fiction’s most unforgettable characters, believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 4/3/2012
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1 lbs
Size: 7.9″ H x 5.2″ L x 1.2″ W
ISBN: 9780062204097
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