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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Reprint Edition) by John Irving Paperback, 619 Pages, Published 1990 ISBN-10: 0-345-36179-2 / 0345361792 ISBN-13: 978-0-345-36179-0 / 9780345361790 Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mum with a baseball and believes--correctly, it transpires--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his mo |