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| Author: | Irving, John |
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| Binding: | Paperback |
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| Publisher: | Black Swan |
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| Publication Year: | 1989-11-01 |
| ISBN#: | 978-0-552-13539-9 |
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| Pages: | 637 |
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Export Ed. |
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Comments
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and 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 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.