A Prayer for Owen Meany
About this book
"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)
Subjects
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- amitié masculine
- belief and doubt
- birthfathers
- croyance et doute
- death
- englisch
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- friendship in fiction
- male friendship
- mothers
- new hampshire
- new hampshire, fiction
- pères naturels
- predestination
- prédestination
- psychological fiction
- religious fiction
- roman
- roman américain
- romans, nouvelles
- united states
- vietnam war, 1961-1975
- vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction