A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
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Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 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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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 10 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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"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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