Sweet Dreams (1973)
Michael Frayn
With a new introduction by the author
Book Description
A man who dies and goes to Heaven nowadays expects something a little more sophisticated than gold streets and angels playing harps. He wants a place designed for his own individual needs and tastes – somewhere that allows for personal development and rich human relations – somewhere you can win. Here’s Howard Baker’s heaven. It may be yours.
Long regarded as a classic in Great Britain, Michael Frayn’s comic fantasy Sweet Dreams (1973) returns to print in the U.S. for the first time in decades in this edition, which features a new introduction by the author.
Michael Frayn
With a new introduction by the author
Book Description
A man who dies and goes to Heaven nowadays expects something a little more sophisticated than gold streets and angels playing harps. He wants a place designed for his own individual needs and tastes – somewhere that allows for personal development and rich human relations – somewhere you can win. Here’s Howard Baker’s heaven. It may be yours.
Long regarded as a classic in Great Britain, Michael Frayn’s comic fantasy Sweet Dreams (1973) returns to print in the U.S. for the first time in decades in this edition, which features a new introduction by the author.
REVIEWS
“Frayn has a most unusual talent. His books seem so deceptively simple, but they linger in the mind for years, and can be re-read with the greatest pleasure. Sweet Dreams is no exception.” – Margaret Drabble, New York Times Book Review
“May go down in history as one of England’s special contributions to the twentieth century.” – Times Literary Supplement
“Frayn is an impeccable writer . . . his novel is a kind of Candide – a vividly contemporary Candide – full of the most serious high comedy and the most enormous belly laughs.” – New Yorker
“May go down in history as one of England’s special contributions to the twentieth century.” – Times Literary Supplement
“Frayn is an impeccable writer . . . his novel is a kind of Candide – a vividly contemporary Candide – full of the most serious high comedy and the most enormous belly laughs.” – New Yorker
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BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1941147968 ISBN-13: 978-1941147962 $15.99 US, 140 pp. Trade paper Published 2015 |
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. One of the few English writers to achieve success as both novelist and playwright, his three most recent novels, Headlong, Spies, and Skios, were all nominated for the Booker Prize, while Noises Off (first produced in New York in 1983, revived in 2001, and due to be revived again in 2015) was recently voted Britain’s second favourite play, and Copenhagen won the Tony Award for Best Play. His first five novels, all long recognized as classics in Great Britain, are also published by Valancourt Books.