HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS THE VIEWS FROM DOWN HERE.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: March 31, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Wolf

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Heaven is that place up there, out there, way beyond the blue. It looks like . . . something.

From pulpits to bookshelves, movie screens to artists' canvases, visions of heaven have been a source of faith and comfort for the devout and of artistic inspiration even for the theologically indifferent.

Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, narrated from heaven by a 14-year-old girl who was brutally murdered, has spent 38 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, including several months at No. 1.

Her heaven ``includes ...

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