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A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving

ISBN13: 9780062204097
ISBN10: 0062204092
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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.

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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John Irving is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year. He lives in Vermont and Toronto, Ontario.

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: Reverend Mother, March 20, 2013 (view all comments by Reverend Mother)
A Prayer for Owen Meany has the best first line of any book I've ever read, and it only gets better from there. Owen is a perfectly unique character in literature; he looks, acts, and most of all, sounds strange. He's even stranger when compared to the narrator, who is about as exciting as a wet firecracker. Several times I laughed out loud. I also cried a couple times. I'm not a huge John Irving fan (I disliked a couple of his books and flat out hated one of them), but this is one of my favorite books ever.
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ISBN:: 9780062204097
Author:: Irving, John
Publisher:: William Morrow & Company
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:: Trade PB
Publication Date:: 20120431
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Pages:: 656
Dimensions:: 8 x 5.3125 x 1.05128 in 10.4 oz

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