A Prayer for Owen Meany
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9780552135399
Copyright date: 1989
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.
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