Wyniki wyszukiwania:

A Vietnam vet dies and goes to heaven. Having befriended an archangel, both are sent to earth to warn of the potential for the end of human life on the planet. The two messengers first appear in a small Black Church in Mississippi. That is the beginning. Things happen, like at the pro football game when the San Adreas fault gives way and western California is swallowed by the ocean. There is a trip to heaven where people are assigned to different levels. There is a trip to hell where we are invited into Satan

This book is a work of fiction but Russian and China are real enough. The incredible feats of certain lamas in Tibet are also real and almost beyond belief. They were featured in The National Geographic Magazine, sometime back in the 1980's. The power of extrasensory perception is up for grabs but endorsed by most in the scientific community. The question in the story is; can the Chinese and Russians stop one particular lama from getting out of Tibet and exposing their evils which threaten the world? Getting this lama out becomes the assignment given to an American Lieutenant Colonel in the...

William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism helps us to see him as a writer very much aware of his limitations and of his enormous importance in the development of an American literary tradition.