03319cam a2200361 4500 590299075 TxAuBib 20220725120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062204103 0062204106 B006VE6TCW Amazon 3ddcf49c-ff07-45d9-bef1-51023c23d430 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 784063 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Irving, John, 1942- A Prayer for Owen Meany [Libby eBook]. HarperCollins, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 989kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><strong>"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction—it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world."<br /> — STEPHEN KING, Washington Post</strong><strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong>A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—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.</p> <p><strong>"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic . . . Dickensian in scope . . . Quite stunning and very ambitious."</strong> <strong>— Los Angeles Times Book Review</strong></p> <p><strong>"Brilliantly cinematic . . . Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax."</strong> <strong>— ALFRED KAZIN, New York Times</strong></p>. Classic Literature. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/3DD/CF4/9C/PrayerforOwenMeany9780062204103.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3DDCF49C-FF07-45D9-BEF1-51023C23D430&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/3DD/CF4/9C/PrayerforOwenMeany9780062204103.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3DDCF49C-FF07-45D9-BEF1-51023C23D430&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0293-1/3DD/CF4/9C/PrayerforOwenMeany9780062204103.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3DDCF49C-FF07-45D9-BEF1-51023C23D430&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)