A prayer for Owen Meany
a novel
by John Irving
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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
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Friendship in fiction, Friendship, Fiction, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Belief and doubt, Mothers, Death, Male friendship, Predestination, Birthfathers, United States, Religious fiction, Psychological fiction, New Hampshire, Fiction, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Friendship, fiction, New hampshire, fiction, Fiction, psychological, American fiction, Croyance et doute, Romans, nouvelles, Amitié masculine, Prédestination, Pères naturels, Roman américain, Englisch, RomanShowing 9 featured editions. View all 32 editions?
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Owen Meany
December 31, 1998, Diogenes Verlag AG,Switzerland
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1990, Ballantine Books
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
1989, William Morrow and Company
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1989, Lester & Orpen Dennys, William Morrow & Co
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
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"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.
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