Gateway to Heaven

by Sheldon Vanauken

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553146483
• ISBN13: 9780553146486
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A compelling novel of ideas and emotion, well worth reading

Gateway to Heaven is a surprising, moving novel. In many ways, it reads as if one of the better Victorian novelists-- novelists of ideas, religion, romance, humor, and emotion-- were transported into the 1960s to write a book about the time. Gateway possesses some of the faults of a first novel (especially a Victorian first novel)-- occassionally it is a bit difficult to believe, and occasionally the conversations are a bit too abstract-- but its virtues in emotive power and intellectual weight far outweigh these vices. A rare piece of art.