Loved itThis one was amazing. It is about Owen Meanie who accidentally kills his best friend's mother in a baseball game. Yes, this is partly religious, but it is also mind-blowingly good.
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
Others: Positive "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany." So begins John Irving's new novel. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing ina Little League baseball game in Gravesend , New Hampshire; one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. The boy who hit the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen - after that 1953 fould ball - is extraordinary and terrifying. (front flap)
- ISBN:
- 9780679642596
- Length:
- 543 pages
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