β Scribed by Doctorow, E.L.
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With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue. Intrigued by the mysteryβand by the maverick rector and the young rabbi investigating the strange act of desecrationβis a well-known novelist, whose capacious brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age.
Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, filled with the sights and sounds of New York, and encompassing a large cast of vividly drawn characters including theologians, scientists, Holocaust survivors, and war veterans,City of Godis a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by Americaβs preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time.
Praise forCity of God
βA grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.ββThe Wall Street Journal
βDazzling . . . The true miracle ofCity of Godis the way its disparate parts fuse into a consistently enthralling and suspenseful whole.ββTime
βBlooms with humor, and a humanity that carries triumphant as intelligent a novel as one might hope to find these days.ββLos Angeles Times
βRadiates [with] panoramic ambition and spiritual incandescence.ββChicago Tribune
βOne of the greatest American novels of the past fifty years . . . ReadingCity of Godrestores oneβs faith in literature.ββThe Houston Chronicle
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