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A Prayer For Owen Meany

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  • Author: John IRVING
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Published: 2007
  • Description: Softback, Very Good
  • Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket
  • Edition: Re-issue
  • Ref: 8716
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This is a first printing of this edition. Larger sized B format (130 x 198mm) paperback.  UNREAD.  Age tanning to pages.

A book in the Bloomsbury 21 series. Includes a new introduction by Jan Morris and reading group guide.

SYNOPSIS:  “Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball that 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 is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan.”

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