Sweet Dreams
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Sweet Dreams

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Sweet Dreams

About this book

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. That was 1,900 years ago, and Heaven today has changed out of all recognition. So discovers Howard Baker, who, after a car accident on earth finds a celestial metropolis which offers rich opportunities for leisure and enjoyment -- but one that also presents a moral and intellectual challenge for the likes of modest, responsiible, likeable, educated men such as Howard.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
eBook ISBN
9780571329878
Year
2015

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. A Note on the New Edition
  6. A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights
  7. He drives with the windows down
  8. In your first few hours in a new place
  9. There’s always a bad moment
  10. He goes to sleep with the feeling
  11. He wakes early next morning
  12. He walks along a broad, straight avenue
  13. He threads his way through narrow alleys
  14. After lunch
  15. In the late afternoon, as he is walking past the Little Palace
  16. ‘What?’ says the woman, frowning.
  17. ‘God, I did that well!’
  18. She hurries along the street
  19. ‘There’s a gentleman waiting to see you’
  20. The last glowing embers in the fireplace
  21. They’re all here
  22. As soon as he looked out of the window
  23. Everyone round the table listens
  24. ‘Barratt was just telling us’
  25. ‘You should have been there’
  26. Matthew, the six-year-old
  27. For dinner they have taramasalata
  28. So when he sees Rose
  29. Howard meets Phil Schaffer
  30. ‘But you must know!’
  31. One day his father phones.
  32. He has in fact got a job
  33. He likes the work itself
  34. It’s a real young man’s mountain
  35. All his friends know
  36. And there is room for them all to do better
  37. What astonishes Howard
  38. Phil has an incredibly good job
  39. For Christmas Howard buys
  40. A great joke
  41. ‘You didn’t see God?’
  42. But what’s Charles Aught up to?
  43. Charles draws another face in beer.
  44. But when Howard thinks seriously
  45. Howard is becoming something of an expert
  46. ‘Great,’ says Phil.
  47. Howard has the feeling
  48. ‘But what I don’t understand
  49. ‘Obviously,’ says Howard
  50. ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake!’
  51. At the airport
  52. He had forgotten how small London is.
  53. Things are pretty bad in Britain
  54. He arranges a meeting
  55. Michael Wayland’s over in London
  56. Howard’s report on the human condition
  57. Bill Mushin has an office on the 54th floor
  58. ‘For the option,’
  59. Bill Mishkin flies out to Rome.
  60. ‘I’ve been thinking,’ says Bill
  61. ‘But Bill Mishkin,’ shouts Howard
  62. ‘Oh God, it’s going to be a terrible place!’
  63. When Howard comes tragically back
  64. ‘Me!’ cries Howard,
  65. He turns his back upon the life he has led
  66. They are living in a ramshackle old farmhouse
  67. It’s Miriam Bernstein
  68. ‘I warn you’
  69. The children are allowed
  70. He is the voice of his circle
  71. The Chases drive out
  72. ‘Oh good,’ says Howard
  73. ‘I beg your pardon?’
  74. The more Howard thinks about it
  75. It’s funny to be driving
  76. He walks round the streets
  77. Caroline, Freddie’s wife
  78. Howard and Felicity don’t go mad
  79. They all live in solid old houses
  80. At the office Howard surrounds himself
  81. And even now
  82. About the Author
  83. By the Same Author
  84. Copyright