A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world. STEPHEN KING, Washington Post I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voicenot 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 boysbest friendsare 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. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
William Morrow & Company
$16.58 - $33.60
- UPC:
- 9780062204097
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 4/3/2012
- Release Date:
- 4/3/2012
- Author:
- Irving, John
- Language:
- English: Published; English: Original Language; English
- Edition:
- Reprint
- Pages:
- 627