A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
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Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is.
This is John Irving's most comic novel: yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character.
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Friendship in fiction, Friendship, Fiction, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Belief and doubt, Mothers, Death, Male friendship, Predestination, Birthfathers, United States, Religious fiction, Psychological fiction, New Hampshire, Fiction, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Friendship, fiction, New hampshire, fiction, Fiction, psychological, American fiction, Croyance et doute, Romans, nouvelles, Amitié masculine, Prédestination, Pères naturels, Roman américain, Englisch, RomanShowing 9 featured editions. View all 32 editions?
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Owen Meany
December 31, 1998, Diogenes Verlag AG,Switzerland
Paperback
in German
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1990, Ballantine Books
in English
- 1st mass market ed.
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
1989, Lester & Orpen Dennys, William Morrow & Co
in English
- 1st trade ed.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
1989, William Morrow and Company
Hardcover
in English
- First Trade Edition
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A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel
Publish date unknown, Morrow
- 1st trade ed.
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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."
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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.
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