A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel
Irving, John 1942 -
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / John Irving - Toronto : Vintage Canada , c1989 - 543 p. ; 21 cm
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 and 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.
English
9780676974034
Vietnam War, 1961-1975----Fiction
Mothers---Death----Fiction
Belief and doubt----Fiction
Male friendship----Fiction
Predestination----Fiction
Birthfathers---Fiction
New Hampshire----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Religious fiction
FIC IRV
A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / John Irving - Toronto : Vintage Canada , c1989 - 543 p. ; 21 cm
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 and 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.
English
9780676974034
Vietnam War, 1961-1975----Fiction
Mothers---Death----Fiction
Belief and doubt----Fiction
Male friendship----Fiction
Predestination----Fiction
Birthfathers---Fiction
New Hampshire----Fiction
Psychological fiction
Religious fiction
FIC IRV
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