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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9780062284853
• ISBN: 978-0-06-228485-3
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 212 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Modern Classic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Fantasy / Epic, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Fantasy / Paranormal, FICTION: Occult & Supernatural, FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, RELIGION: Christian Theology / General, COMMON CORE: LITERATURE, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Christian / General, FICTION: Fantasy / Romance, FICTION: Fantasy / Dark Fantasy