A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
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"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." —STEPHEN KING, Washington Post
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.
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.
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Irving, J. (1989). A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel. 1st trade ed. New York, Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Irving, John, 1942-. 1989. A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel. New York, Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Irving, John, 1942-, A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel. New York, Morrow, 1989.
MLA Citation (style guide)Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel. 1st trade ed. New York, Morrow, 1989.
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