Irving, John, 1942-
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / by John Irving. - New York : Ballantine Books, c1989. - 617 p. ; 18 cm.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
0345361792 $12.76
88013839
Belief and doubt--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Predestination--Fiction.
Birthfathers--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.
New Hampshire--Fiction.
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / by John Irving. - New York : Ballantine Books, c1989. - 617 p. ; 18 cm.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
0345361792 $12.76
88013839
Belief and doubt--Fiction.
Mothers--Death--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Predestination--Fiction.
Birthfathers--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.
New Hampshire--Fiction.