A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel
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- ISBN: 0676974031
- ISBN: 9780676974034
- ISBN: 9780062204226
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543 pages - Edition Vintage Canada ed.
- Publisher Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2001.
- Copyright ©1989
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
"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 was 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 and terrifying.