A prayer for Owen Meany

a novel

641 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2002 by Modern Library.

ISBN:
978-0-679-64259-6
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"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)

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Subjects

  • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
  • Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
  • Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
  • Male friendship -- Fiction.
  • Predestination -- Fiction.
  • Birthfathers -- Fiction.
  • Young men -- Fiction.
  • Boys -- Fiction.
  • New Hampshire -- Fiction.