A prayer for Owen Meany / John Irving.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062299567
- ISBN: 0062299565
- Physical Description: viii, 627 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: William Morrow hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.
- Copyright: ©1989
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- Target Audience Note:
- 990L Lexile
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