From the rear cover
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.
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.
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- Title A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Author John Irving
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 656
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books Classics, US
- Date 2012-04-03
- ISBN 9780062204097 / 0062204092
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 990
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Male friendship
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 45
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