Irving, John,  1942- <br/><br/>
A prayer for Owen Meany :  a novel / 
by John Irving. 
 - New York :  Ballantine Books,  c1989. 
 - 617 p. ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> "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 and terrifying."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0345361792  $12.76 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>88013839 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Belief and doubt--Fiction.<br/>Mothers--Death--Fiction.<br/>Male friendship--Fiction.<br/>Predestination--Fiction.<br/>Birthfathers--Fiction.<br/>Young men--Fiction.<br/>Boys--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New Hampshire--Fiction.