That image of how the children can lift Owen over their heads in Sunday school-how he is light enough so they can easily pass him back and forth when the teacher is out of the room-is not only as near to the beginning of the novel as I could find a place for it; that image is echoed at the end of the novel, where Owen's seeming weightlessness is interpreted to mean that he was always in God's hands. But the penultimate paragraph of the
( John Irving )
[ A Prayer for Owen Meany ]
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