The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. One of the boys hits a foul ball and kills the other boy’s mother. Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boysbest friendsare playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. Quite stunning and very ambitious.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review 27 hours and 19 minutes Author John Irving Narrator Joe Barrett Audible release date Aug. Details Or fastest delivery Sunday, March 5. “Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave this richly textured. so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. 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. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys-best friends-are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. 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. Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave richly textured and carefully wrought world.” - STEPHEN KING, Washington Post 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.
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