A Prayer for Owen Meany

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick 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 believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.

Product details

• Authors: John Irving
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 22.04.2014
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780062284853
• ISBN: 978-0-06-228485-3
• Pages: 656
• Dimensions (packing): 14.5 x 21.2 x 4.5 cm
• Series: Modern Classic
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