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A Prayer for Owen Meany: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century

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A Prayer for Owen Meany: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century - Irving, John
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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 that he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century 2007, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

ISBN-13: 9780747590101

21st Birthday Celebratory edition

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