Description
A deluxe collector’s edition of John Irving’s beloved A Prayer for Owen Meany–an unforgettable coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys–best friends whose lives will be forever entwined by fate–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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John Irving
Published: 09/17/2013
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
ISBN: 9780062299567
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 1.80″ H x 9.10″ L x 6.30″ W
About the Author
Irving, John: –
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning in 1980 for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He won the 2000 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Irving’s most recent novel is In One Person (2012).
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