'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it'. ...Show synopsis'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it'. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.Hide synopsis
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust...Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 543 p.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust...Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 543 p.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust...Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 543 p.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust...Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 543 p.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust...Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 543 p.
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust...Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 543 p.
I have read this book at least three times. The last time I read it in its entirety was during a very difficult time in my life ? a period in which I was wandering in the ?dessert? ? uncertain of my purpose in this life. I was not, at that time, a believer. I was a ?physical? Christian, by which I ...
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John Irving is one of my favorite authors, and A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of his best. The story is touching and sad and funny, and I think you'd have to have ice running through your veins if you didn't find it moving.
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All I can say is WOW. The title didn't mean much to me at first and it sounded like some sort of annoying "yay-religion!" book--I only read it because it was AP English Language and Composition summer homework. But this book is SO MUCH MORE! I can understand why my teacher assigned this book. The title ...
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Is it a good sign when a book makes you cry every time you finish it? I mean, I'm a man, and we're not supposed to cry over books. Chuckle, maybe. Cry, never. And yet every time I've read A Prayer for Owen Meany (and I've read it 4 or 5 times), I weep. What is it about this book that makes it so ...
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