Download or read book Ideas of Heaven written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supple and precise, these stories cover lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Set in France, Italy, New York, and China, in the past and present, they are about longings--about how sex and religion become parallel forms of dedication and comfort.