num_pages: 617
description: Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.
language: English
title: A Prayer for Owen Meany
titlecomplete: A Prayer for Owen Meany
characters: John Wheelwright, Owen Meany
genres: Coming Of Age, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 315306
places: Canada, Gravesend, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Toronto, Ontario, The United States of America
publisher: Ballantine Books