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A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / John Irving

By:

Irving, John, 1942 -

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Vintage Canada , c1989Description: 543 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780676974034

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DDC classification:

FIC IRV

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC IRV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		054030

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.

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