A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / John Irving.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperLuxe, [2012].Edition: 1st HarperLuxe edDescription: viii, 1137 p. (large print) ; 23 cmISBN: - 0062205579
- 9780062205575
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Main Library | Large Print Fiction | Irving Joh | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 33111006724799 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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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