num_pages: 720
description: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When Owen hits a foul ball which kills John's mother, their lives are changed in an instant.It is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees. He believes that he is God's instrument, put on Earth for a higher purpose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam War, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen's divine plan was not imagined after all.
language: English
title: A Prayer For Owen Meany
titlecomplete: A Prayer For Owen Meany
characters: John Wheelwright, Owen Meany
genres: Fiction, Classics, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 315303
places: Canada, New Hampshire, Toronto, Ontario, The United States of America, Gravesend, New Hampshire
publisher: BLACK SWAN