A Prayer for Owen Meany Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Illustrated Book (2011) and in 1992 he won

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A Prayer for Owen Meany Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Illustrated Book (2011) and in 1992 he wonEleven year old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John