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040 | _aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12 | ||
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_a0345361792 _c$12.76 |
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_aIrving, John, _d1942- |
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_aA prayer for Owen Meany : _ba novel / _cby John Irving. |
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_aNew York : _bBallantine Books, _cc1989. |
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_a617 p. ; _c18 cm. |
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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. | ||
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_aBelief and doubt _xFiction. |
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_aMothers _xDeath _xFiction. |
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_aMale friendship _xFiction. |
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_aPredestination _xFiction. |
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_aBirthfathers _xFiction. |
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_aYoung men _xFiction. |
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_aBoys _xFiction. |
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_aNew Hampshire _xFiction. |
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