A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

✍ Irving, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 405 KB

SUMMARY: 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

A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel

✍ Irving, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 UND ⚖ 405 KB

SUMMARY: 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

A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel

✍ Irving, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English

SUMMARY: 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

A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

✍ Irving, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English

### Amazon.com Review Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie *Simon Birch*, i

A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel

✍ John Irving 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Harper 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 498 KB 👁 2 views

**A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick** *I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voicenot 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

A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel

✍ Irving, John 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 405 KB

SUMMARY: 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