A Prayer for Owen Meany : A Novel
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[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins, [2012].
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1 online resource (640 pages)
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LC Subjects
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Birthfathers -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Electronic books.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Predestination -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Religious fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Birthfathers -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Electronic books.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
New Hampshire -- Fiction.
Predestination -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Religious fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
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eBook
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English
ISBN
9780062204103
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9780062204103
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"A remarkable novel.... A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction -- it is 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 Post A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick 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. "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic... Dickensian in scope... Quite stunning and very ambitious." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Brilliantly cinematic... Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax." -- ALFRED KAZIN, New York Times"--,Provided by Freading.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Irving, J. (2012). A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel . HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Irving, John, 1942-. 2012. A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Irving, John, 1942-. A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel HarperCollins, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel HarperCollins, 2012.
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