A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Novel
New York : HarperLuxe, [2012]
Format: Large Print
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Description: viii, 1,137 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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. 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 ball, is extraordinary.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Predestination -- Fiction.
Birthfathers -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Large type books.
New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Predestination -- Fiction.
Birthfathers -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Large type books.
New Hampshire -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062205575
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPF Irving | Ballentine Indoors | Large Print Fiction | Out (Due: 5/18/2024) |