Hell Is for Real, Too: A Middle-Aged Accountant's Astounding Story of His Trip to Hell and Back

Authors: Shmuley, Skip
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FAM054000, HUM007000, HUM008000
ISBN: 9781101571026, Related ISBNs: 0452297796, 1101571020, 9780452297791, 9781101571026
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 144,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: The world knows the amazing story of little Colton Burpo, who nearly died during an emergency appendectomy, and then, while in a coma, went to heaven. His father, Todd Burpo, went on to write Heaven Is for Real, which has sold over one million copies- deservedly so. Only a cynic would believe that an evangelical pastor with outstanding medical bills and a child who had heard 52,000 Bible stories might be tempted to do the following:
1) Prompt the boy with leading questions
2) Write a book with a professional author, and
3) Make big bucks from it

But this is Skip Shmuley's story, not the Burpos'. Skip is a middle-aged husband who faced death during a vasectomy gone terribly wrong. At first, he rose skyward . . .

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