A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving

<p><strong>"A remarkable novel. . . . <em>A Prayer for Owen Meany</em> is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction--it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave this] richly textured and carefully wrought world."<br/> -- STEPHEN KING, <em>Washington Post</em></strong><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick</strong></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>"Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating, and darkly comic . . . Dickensian in scope . . . Quite stunning and very ambitious." </strong><strong>-- <em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>"Brilliantly cinematic . . . Irving shows considerable skill as scene after scene mounts to its moving climax. </st