A prayer for Owen Meany

Autori

• John Irving

Parametri

• 543 pagine
• 20 ore di lettura

• Esoterismo e religione
• Gialli
• Gialli / Thriller
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica

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"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." So begins John Irving's new novel. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys - best friends - are playing ina Little League baseball game in Gravesend , New Hampshire; one of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. The boy who hit the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen - after that 1953 fould ball - is extraordinary and terrifying. (front flap)

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1989

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