**A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of*The Solitude of Prime Numbers*** Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land
Beyond Heaven and Earth A Novel About Love and Death...and Life
β Scribed by Steven H. Propp
- Publisher
- Baker & Taylor
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 516 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1469752778
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β¦ Synopsis
Have you ever wondered what happens to us when we die? What if you really HAD to know?When tragedy strikes the family of young Jobran Winter, he is forced to confront these questions directly. Undertaking a feverish "Quest," he explores various branches of Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Sikhism, as well as the religions of China and Japan.His search encompasses the New Age, Reincarnation, Spiritism and Psychical Research. Attending channeling sessions and sΓ©ances, investigating haunted houses and Near-Death Experiences, he examines spiritual traditions ranging from Swedenborg to Scientology, from Jodo Shinshu to the Jehovah's Witnesses.Finally, the Quest brings him into direct contact with Hospice work; physical disability; child abandonment; abortion; suicide; euthanasia, and even cold-blooded murder.Encounter the doctrines of Purgatory and Predestination, Universalism and Annihilationism, as you journey in a novel that will make you reexamine your ideas about religion, skepticism, love, death and LIFE.
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