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040 _aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12
010 _a 88013839
020 _a0345361792
_c$12.76
100 _aIrving, John,
_d1942-
245 1 2 _aA prayer for Owen Meany :
_ba novel /
_cby John Irving.
260 0 _aNew York :
_bBallantine Books,
_cc1989.
300 _a617 p. ;
_c18 cm.
520 _a"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.
650 _aBelief and doubt
_xFiction.
650 _aMothers
_xDeath
_xFiction.
650 _aMale friendship
_xFiction.
650 _aPredestination
_xFiction.
650 _aBirthfathers
_xFiction.
650 _aYoung men
_xFiction.
650 _aBoys
_xFiction.
651 _aNew Hampshire
_xFiction.
942 _c UKN
999 _c49211
_d49211