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A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

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Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.

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Audiobook Book Club Classics Coming of Age Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Novels
Pages 637 Pages
Published January 1, 1990
Publisher Black Swan
Language English
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780552135399
ASIN 0552135399
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