Prayer for Owen Meany LP A

“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 PostI 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