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. (source)
A prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving: A prayer for Owen Meany (1989, Franklin Library)
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543 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1989 by Franklin Library.
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- Birthfathers -- Fiction.
- New Hampshire -- Fiction.