A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / by John Irving.
by Irving, John.
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BookPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c1989Description: 617 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0345361792.Subject(s): Belief and doubt -- Fiction | Mothers -- Death -- Fiction | Male friendship -- Fiction | Predestination -- Fiction | Birthfathers -- Fiction | Young men -- Fiction | Boys -- Fiction | New Hampshire -- FictionSummary: "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.
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"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.
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