A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

William Morrow & Company

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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
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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