{"product_id":"prayer-for-owen-meany","title":"Prayer for Owen Meany","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, one of literary fiction's most unforgettable characters, 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","brand":"John Irving","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53119590728044,"sku":"9780062204097","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9780062204097-us.jpg?v=1769612865","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/prayer-for-owen-meany","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}