A Prayer For Owen Meany
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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.
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Third or fourth reading? Love this book. It struck me this time that it's what The Goldfinch (a DNF for me) was trying to be. And, that's number 100 for 2019.
Irving is a genius. This is now one of my all-time favorite novels.
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