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A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel / John Irving.
LIBRA - Special PS3559.R8 P7 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irving, John, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States--Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Belief and doubt--Fiction.
- Belief and doubt.
- Predestination.
- Mothers--Death--Fiction.
- Mothers.
- Mothers--Death.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Predestination--Fiction.
- New Hampshire--Fiction.
- New Hampshire.
- Birthfathers--Fiction.
- Birthfathers.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Boys--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Religious fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 543 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. --Publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes reader's guide, copyright 2001.
- Originally published in 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0345417976
- 9780345417978
- OCLC:
- 50220474
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