num_pages: 656
description: “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 was 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 and terrifying.
language: English
title: A Prayer for Owen Meany
titlecomplete: A Prayer for Owen Meany
characters: Owen Meany, John Wheelwright
genres: Fiction, American, Coming Of Age, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 315327
places: Toronto, Ontario, The United States of America, Canada, Gravesend, New Hampshire, New Hampshire
publisher: Vintage Canada