Prayer for Owen Meany

<p><strong>A remarkable novel. . . . <em>A Prayer for Owen Meany</em> 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.</strong> --<strong>STEPHEN KING <em>Washington Post</em></strong></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p>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.</p><p>A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick</p>