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The story begins in the summer of 1953, when best friends Chuck and Owen Meany play baseball in Gravesend, New Hampshire. A stray foul ball tragically kills Owen’s mother, leaving Chuck to grapple with grief and Owen to wrestle with a sense of destiny. As the boys grow, Owen’s conviction that he is an instrument of God shapes his actions and the course of his life. The novel examines themes of friendship, belief and doubt, predestination, and the psychological toll of loss, set against the backdrop of a New England community and the looming Vietnam War.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: Religious & Spiritual Fiction/Religious Fiction
Authors: John Irving
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