A Prayer for Owen Meany
eBook - 2012
"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world." —STEPHEN KING, Washington PostI 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.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 that 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...
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HarperCollins
- Language
- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9780062204103 |
Release Date | 3/13/2012 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B006VE6TCW |
Release Date | 3/13/2012 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780062204103 |
Release Date | 3/13/2012 |