num_pages: 641
description: 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.A Prayer for Owen Meany was first published in 1989. This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author.
language: English
title: A Prayer for Owen Meany
titlecomplete: A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
characters: John Wheelwright, Owen Meany
genres: Coming Of Age, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 315300
places: Canada, Gravesend, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Toronto, Ontario, The United States of America
publisher: Modern Library