The release date for the English version of 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by
John Irving is Jan 1990. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, eleven-year-old Owen Meany hits a foul ball and murders the mother of his closest buddy. Owen considers himself to be God's tool and rejects the idea of accidents. After that 1953 foul, Owen experiences something amazing and horrifying. John Irving's most painful hero to date is Owen Meany, who is at one and the same time a humorous, self-deluded victim and, at the end, the main tragic player in a God-ordained scheme.