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A Prayer for Owen Meany

byJohn Irving
Literary Fiction
Contemporary

'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' 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 ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.

Format

Paperback

Pages

636

Publisher

Black Swan

Published

1990

Edition

BOMC ed.

Language

en

ISBN-13

9780552135399