A Prayer for Owen Meany
- ISBN-10
- 0307362027
- ISBN-13
- 9780307362025
- Series
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05-08
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada
- Author
- John Irving
Description
“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 was 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 and terrifying.
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