Ideas of Heaven
Subtitle: A Ring of Stories
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 6, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393326871
First sentence: I had my own ideas about a higher purpose, but not enough ideas.
Description: Set in France, Italy, New York, and China, in past and present, these stories cover lifetimes, and they are about longings about how sex and religion become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. As the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next.