A Prayer For Owen Meany

''A work of genius'' Independent

''Marvellously funny . . . What better entertainment is there than a serious book which makes you laugh?'' Spectator


''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.''

Summer, 1953. In the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany are playing in a Little League baseball game. When Owen hits a foul ball which kills John''s mother, their lives are changed in an instant.

It is dismissed as a tragic accident but Owen disagrees. He believes that he is God''s instrument, put on Earth for a higher purpose. And as the boys come into adulthood to the background of the Vietnam War, a series of remarkable events show that perhaps Owen''s divine plan was not imagined after all.

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