Summary
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 invest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349113524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349113521 |
| Author: | E.L. Doctorow |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 200mm x 21mm |
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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 - NEWSWEEKDoctorow’s meditation on God is thought-provoking, perfectly accessible, intelligently told through satisfying characters and generally beautifully written. - THE TIMESCITY OF GOD is a very good novel about contemporary America and its troubled search for reconciliation between science and faith. - GUARDIANAbout The Author
E.L. Doctorow
E L Doctorow’s work is published in thirty languages. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He lives and works in New York.
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