Passing Through Paradise

The novel takes its title from an entry in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebook: "e;If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?"e; This theme, vague yearning for a better place, better time, better circumstance, reverberates in many of the s...