A Prayer For Owen Meany (English, Hardcover, John Irving)

“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 in a 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 foul ball – is extraordinary and terrifying.
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