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City of God

City of God

by E. L. Doctorow (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

CITY OF GOD begins in mystery: the large brass cross behind the altar of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in lower Manhattan has disappeared ...and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and young rabbinical couple who lead the synagogue set about attempting to learn who the vandals are who have committed this strange double act of desecration and to what purpose, but their joint clerical investigation only deepens the mystery. A writer alerted to the story by a newspaper article befriends the priest and the rabbis and find that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the case. In fact, as the narrative advances and the story broadens, more and more people are implicated in what may be the elusive prophecy of a new American culture. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, the book opens into a multi-voiced narrative that incorporates the monumental historical events and predominating ideas of our age.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 322
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Abacus
Published: 01 Feb 2001
ISBN 10: 0349113521
ISBN 13: 9780349113524
Book Overview: * Large-space advertising campaign in the TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN and SUNDAY TIMES * 18-copy + 3 FOC display bin with custom header also available separately * Submitted for trade promotions * Review coverage in the media and national press

Media Reviews
E L Doctorow is an astonishing novelist - astonishing not only in the virtuosity with which he deploys his mimetic skills, but also in the fact that it is impossible to predict even roughly the shape, scope and tone of one of his novels from its predecessors * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW *
Doctorow is a master of atmosphere ... He knows the art of storytelling inside and out * NEWSWEEK *
Doctorow's meditation on God is thought-provoking, perfectly accessible, intelligently told through satisfying characters and generally beautifully written. * THE TIMES *
CITY OF GOD is a very good novel about contemporary America and its troubled search for reconciliation between science and faith. * GUARDIAN *
Author Bio
E. L. Doctorow's novels include Andrew's Brain, Homer and Langley, The March, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate and The Waterworks. Among his honours are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He died in July 2015.