A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“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 Post 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. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick — ASIN: 0062204092 | ISBN13: 9780062204097 | ISBN-13: 978-0062204097