Placeholder text

Go to cart

Prayer for Owen Meany, A

By John Irving

Product Image: Prayer for Owen Meany, A

Prayer for Owen Meany, A

0 - Used - good
Description
“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, one of literary fiction’s most unforgettable characters, 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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
658
Release Date:
2012-04-03
Publication Date:
2020-03-31
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0062204092
ISBN13:
9780062204097
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
563 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out