A Prayer for Owen Meany

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"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." So begins John Irving's new novel. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing ina Little League baseball game in Gravesend , New Hampshire; one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. The boy who hit the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen - after that 1953 fould ball - is extraordinary and terrifying. (front flap)

subjects: Friendship in fiction,  Friendship,  Fiction,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Belief and doubt,  Mothers,  Death,  Male friendship,  Predestination,  Birthfathers,  United States,  Religious fiction,  Psychological fiction,  New Hampshire,  Fiction, general,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  New hampshire, fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  American fiction,  Croyance et doute,  Romans, nouvelles,  Amitié masculine,  Prédestination,  Pères naturels,  Roman américain,  Englisch,  Roman