A Prayer for Owen Meany

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Center for Learning, 1996 - Literary Criticism - 86 pages
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen does not believe in accidents and believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
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About the author (1996)

John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award.

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TitleA Prayer for Owen Meany
Novel Series
TAP instructional materials
AuthorJohn Irving
PublisherCenter for Learning, 1996
ISBN1560774142, 9781560774143
Length86 pages
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Literary Criticism / American / General
  
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