A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel
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Author
Published
New York : Modern Library, 2002.
Format
Book
Edition
2002 Modern Library ed.
Status
Sequim - Fiction (Adult)
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Birthfathers -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Predestination -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Religious fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Birthfathers -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Predestination -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Religious fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
More Details
Published
New York : Modern Library, 2002.
Edition
2002 Modern Library ed.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 641 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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.