A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is a 543-page hardcover published in 1989 by William Morrow and Company, Inc. and is a stated first trade edition. The half-cloth book is in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the dust jacket. Inside, pages are clean and unmarked.
Book Summary
"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 ithe instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe ion 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 in a 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 foul ball--is extraordinary and terrifying.
