SearchLibrary
More ▼
BookshelvesRedeem code
bookmate game
7 days for free
en
Read in our apps:
iOS
·
Android
John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Notify me when the book’s added
Impression
Add to shelf
Already read
Report an error in the book
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
Search on Google
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
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 the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
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.

ClassicsLiteraryClassicsFiction
This book is currently unavailable
904 printed pages
Publication year
2012

Related booksAll

Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • Ira Girbahas quoted6 years ago
    Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own.
      • Like
      • Comment
      • Report this
    • Jana Karpenkohas quoted11 years ago
      It's a no-win argument-that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.
        • Like
        • Comment
        • Report this
      • Jana Karpenkohas quoted11 years ago
        in New Hampshire-we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.
          • Like
          • Comment
          • Report this

        On the bookshelves

        Don’t give a book. Give a library.Give a Bookmate subscription →
        fb2epub
        Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)