A Prayer for Owen Meany, 21st Birthday Celebratory Edition. Owen Meany, englische Ausgabe - Includes reading group guide and a new introcuction by Jan Morris

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball that kills his best friend s mother. Owen doesn t believe in accidents; he believes that he is God s instrument. What happens to Owenafter that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.

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"May justly join the classic American list." (Anthony Burgess, Observer)

Product details

• Authors: John Irving
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2007
• EAN: 9780747590101
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-9010-1
• No. of pages: 636
• Weight: 675 g
• Series: Bloomsbury Paperbacks; Bloomsbury 21
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Fiction > Narrative literature