"After Lives is an elegant and informative literary pilgrimage through heaven, hell, and purgatory -
a rare achievement in humane erudition, graced by sympathy, curiosity, and candor." -- Carol Zaleski,
author of Otherworld Journeys, The Life of the World to Come, The Book of Heaven, and Prayer: A History

"John Casey's After Lives, steeped in classics, philosophy, literature, and religion, discusses a vast
variety of ideas about what happens after death. It ranges over heaven, hell, and what may lie between,
covering ideas from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century spiritualism. It is vivid, ironic, deep, and
accessible." -- Jeffrey Burton Russell, author of A History of Heaven and Paradise Mislaid

"Happily for the scope of his inquiry, the author is immensely well-read and readily shows how
powerfully and frequently notions of heaven and hell have inspired and haunted Western writers.
This is a smart and comprehensive survey."--Publishers Weekly

"After Lives offers a humane and often witty engagement with the concepts of heaven and hell in different
times and according to different faiths. It is ironic that a book about life after death so enlivens one
of the most important conversations we can have in the here and now."--The Wall Street Journal

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