Title: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
Author: John Irving
Published: 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679642596
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 544 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, History, United States, Psychological, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), General & Literary Fiction, Psychological fiction, Literary, Belief and doubt, Fiction - General, Sports, War & Military, Boys, Classic fiction, Military, Young men, Friendship, Vietnam War, Death, 1961-1975, Religious fiction, Male friendship, Mothers, Mothers - Death, John - Prose & Criticism, New Hampshire, Birthfathers, Irving, Vietnam War; 1961-1975, Vietnamese Conflict; 1961-1975, Predestination, Vietnamese Conflict, Vietnam War; 1961-1975 - United States, 1961-1975 - United States
Categories: Classic Literature, Fiction, Literature
"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 was 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 and terrifying.
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