''Sweet Dreams'' is a 1973 novel by
Michael Frayn. The book follows a middle-class intellectual man, Howard Baker, who dies and ends up in a middle-class intellectual version of
heaven
Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the belie ...
, where he and his circle of middle-class intellectual friends have jobs such as designing the
Alps and creating man. Howard moves through a series of more or less trite philosophical positions before finally going to work for God.
1973 British novels
1973 fantasy novels
Novels by Michael Frayn
Novels set in heaven
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