| No Smoking? Up Yours -- Take Heaven And Stuff It Contributor(s): Ivry, Dov (Author) |
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ISBN: 1489548041 ISBN-13: 9781489548047 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6" W x 9" (0.39 lbs) 126 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Someone once said, and I wish I could remember who it was so I could give credit, that the best satire is if the reader can't tell if it is a satire or the author is trying to be serious.There are a lot of books about the near-death experience. Most are trying to be inspirational. All are serious.There is one drawback with all these books. We never find out what happens next."No Smoking? Up Yours -- Take Heaven And Stuff It" recounts my near-death experience. And I kept going. If Lucian of Samosata, who has always been a hero of mine, dare I say an inspiration, actually went up to heaven and lived to tell about it, why couldn't I? Of course he was only a lowly satirist with no special theological training in these matters. I retraced his steps, written between the lines, and voila I got to the next level. I'm even farther down on the totem pole than he was being a journalist, but my trade does endow my report with some gravitas which his did not have. I might even be taken seriously. I am not sure if that would be a good idea, but then only readers can make that call.This book scrapes 40,000 words which would put in the class of a novella. |