Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving, 1989
Random House
672 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780345361790

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 instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying. (From the publisher.)

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