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A Prayer for Owen Meany

A Prayer for Owen Meany - Paperback

by John Irving
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Availability:In StockContributor:John IrvingSeries:Modern ClassicPublish date:2014-04-22Pages:656
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner Books ClassicsISBN-13:9780062284853ISBN-10:62284851UPC:9780062284853Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Christian, LiterarySize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCHA6DQWNA

"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." --STEPHEN KING, Washington Post

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.

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner Books ClassicsISBN-13:9780062284853ISBN-10:62284851UPC:9780062284853Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Christian, LiterarySize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCHA6DQWNA
Irving, John: -

John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning in 1980 for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Irving's most recent novel is In One Person (2012).

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics

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