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A prayer for Owen Meany

Owen Meanie, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. During a little league baseball game, eleven year old Owen hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is extraordinary and terrifying.

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  • "Owen Meanie, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. During a little league baseball game, eleven year old Owen hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is extraordinary and terrifying."@en
  • "After Owen Meany hit a foul ball that killed his best friend's mother, he believes he is the instrument of God. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1989."@en
  • "Twee bijzondere Amerikaanse jongens groeien op in de schaduw van de Vietnam-oorlog."
  • "In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero."@en
  • "In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero."
  • "When dwarfish Owen Meany kills his best friend's mom with a baseball, he feels his only chance at redemption is martyrdom. His story then becomes an inspiration to thousands."@en
  • "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 and 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 and terrifying."
  • "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 and 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 and terrifying."@en
  • "While playing baseball in the summer of 1953, Owen Meany hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother, and he becomes convinced that he is an instrument of God."@en
  • "When he was eleven years old, Owen Meany hit a foul ball that struck and killed the mother of his best friend, Johnny Wheelwright, the narrator of this story. Thereafter, Owen believed himself to be the instrument of God."
  • "Owen Meany hits a foul ball while playing baseball in the summer of 1953 that kills his best friend's mother, an accident that Owen is sure is the result of divine intervention."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Books on CD"
  • "Religious fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "A Prayer for Owen Meany"
  • "A prayer for Owen Meany a novel"
  • "A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel"
  • "A prayer for Owen Meany"
  • "A prayer for Owen Meany"@en

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