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A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving, 1989
Random House
627 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780062204097
Summary
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 and terrifying. (From the publisher.)
The 1998 film version is titled Simon Birch, starring Jim Carey, Ashley Judd, Joseph Mazzello, Oliver Platt, and Ian Michael Smith.