641 pages
English language
Published Nov. 28, 2002 by Modern Library.
5 stars
(1 review)
"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." So begins John Irving's new novel.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing ina 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 fould ball - is extraordinary and terrifying. (front flap)
Subjects
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Fiction.
- Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
- Male friendship -- Fiction.
- Predestination -- Fiction.
- Birthfathers -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Boys -- Fiction.
- New Hampshire -- Fiction.