{"product_id":"a-prayer-for-owen-meany-a-novel","title":"A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... 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.\" --STEPHEN KING, Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp hidden=\"hidden\"\u003eIrving, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp hidden=\"hidden\"\u003e9780062204226\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49273279938793,"sku":"0850SC6","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/follett-playground-b2b.myshopify.com\/products\/a-prayer-for-owen-meany-a-novel","provider":"Follett Playground B2B","version":"1.0","type":"link"}