A prayer for Owen Meany
a novel
Edición de la obra A Prayer for Owen Meany
| Autor | John Irving |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Modern Library |
| Fecha de publicación | 2002 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 641 |
| ISBN-10 | 0679642595 |
| LCCN | 2002026479 |
| Número de Cutter | I72p |
"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)