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A prayer for owen meany6/21/2023 Rather, Owen believes he acted as God's instrument. Owen's foul ball comes fairly early in the story, as does his admission he doesn't believe in accidents. Irving tells the story firsthand through Johnny Wheelwright, flipping back and forth between current day ("current" - the book was published in 1989) and the early '50s. The book opens, "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." One summer during a Little League game, one boy hits a foul ball that kills his friend's mother. The novel tells the story of two 11-year-old best friends growing up in the early 1950s. So when I saw it in Books-A-Million the other week, " A Prayer for Owen Meany" was on the 2012 list of books. A recent article in Time magazine called him "as close as one gets to a contemporary Dickens." But the first I'd heard of him was last month through World Book Night.
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