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020 | _a9780676974034 | ||
082 | 0 | _aFIC IRV | |
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_aIrving, John _d1942 - |
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_aA prayer for Owen Meany _b: a novel _c/ John Irving |
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_aToronto _b: Vintage Canada _c, c1989 |
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_a543 p. _c; 21 cm |
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520 | _aIn 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. | ||
546 | _aEnglish | ||
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_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _v--Fiction |
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_aMothers _x-Death _v--Fiction |
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650 | 4 |
_aBelief and doubt _v--Fiction |
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650 | 4 |
_aMale friendship _v--Fiction |
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650 | 4 |
_aPredestination _v--Fiction |
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_aBirthfathers _v-Fiction |
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651 | 4 |
_aNew Hampshire _x--Fiction |
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655 | 7 | _aPsychological fiction | |
655 | 7 | _aReligious fiction | |
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