Sweet Dreams (novel)

{{Short description|1973 novel by Michael Fray}}

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{{Infobox novel

| image = SweetDreamsFrayn.jpg

| caption = First edition cover

| author = Michael Frayn

| pub_date = January 3, 1973

| publisher = Viking Press

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Sweet Dreams is a 1973 novel by English writer Michael Frayn.{{Cite web |date=1973-01-01 |title=Sweet Dreams |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/michael-frayn-2/sweet-dreams-21/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Kirkus Reviews}} The book follows a middle-class intellectual man, Howard Baker, who dies and ends up in a middle-class intellectual version of heaven, where he and his circle of middle-class intellectual friends have jobs such as designing the Alps and creating man. Howard moves through a series of more or less trite philosophical positions before finally going to work for God.