A Prayer for Owen Meany
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'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- Traces of moisture / spills
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- Released
- 1990
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- Damaged
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- Title
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Irving
- Publisher
- Black swan
- Released
- 1990
- ISBN10
- 0552135399
- ISBN13
- 9780552135399
- Category
- World prose
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- 'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.