An edition of A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

A prayer for Owen Meany

a novel

1st mass market ed.
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An edition of A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

A prayer for Owen Meany

a novel

1st mass market ed.
  • 3.79 ·
  • 24 Ratings
  • 102 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 35 Have read

"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." So begins John Irving's new novel.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing ina Little League baseball game in Gravesend , New Hampshire; one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. The boy who hit the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen - after that 1953 fould ball - is extraordinary and terrifying.
(front flap)

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
617

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Edition Availability
Cover of: A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany
2001, Ballantine Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Owen Meany
Owen Meany
December 31, 1998, Diogenes Verlag AG,Switzerland
Paperback in German
Cover of: A prayer for Owen Meany
A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1990, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st mass market ed.
Cover of: A prayer for Owen Meany
A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1989, Bloomsbury Publishing
in English
Cover of: A prayer for Owen Meany
A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1989, Morrow
in English - 1st trade ed.
Cover of: Une prière pour Owen
Une prière pour Owen
May 1, 1989, Seuil
Paperback in French
Cover of: A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany
1989, William Morrow and Company
Hardcover in English - First Trade Edition
Cover of: A prayer for Owen Meany
A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1989, Lester & Orpen Dennys, William Morrow & Co
in English - 1st trade ed.
Cover of: A prayer for Owen Meany
A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
Publish date unknown, Morrow
- 1st trade ed.

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617 p. ;
Number of pages
617

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Open Library
OL22354629M
Internet Archive
prayerforowenmea00irvi
ISBN 10
0345361792
Library Thing
7263
Goodreads
77220

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