A Prayer for Owen Meany
Edition: First Trade Edition
Publisher: William Morrow and Company
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780688077082
Copyright date: 1989
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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 is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany." So begins John Irving's new novel.

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing ina Little League baseball game in Gravesend , New Hampshire; one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. The boy who hit the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen - after that 1953 fould ball - is extraordinary and terrifying.
(front flap)