Summary
With brilliant and audacious strokes, the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on the idea of a modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring and dazzling inventive tour-de-force is a riveting detective story about a cross that vanishes from a Lower-East-Side church, only to reappear on the roof of an Upper-West-Side synagogue. Intrigued by the mystery--and by the Episcopal priest and female rabbi who investigate the strange desecration--is a well-known novelist whose capacious brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age.
Employing a multi-voiced narrative that perfectly captures the riffs and rhythms of latter-day New York, then broadens to implicate a cast of characters including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, filmmakers, and crooners, City of God is E. L. Doctorow's most ambitious and intensely personal work. Vast in scope, biblical in tone, it is a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by America's preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time.
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- Title City of God
- Author E. L. Doctorow
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-02-01
- ISBN 9780452282094 / 0452282098
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.31 x 0.77 in (20.37 x 13.49 x 1.96 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), City and town life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99053215
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Dazzling...heartbreaking, and superb...Doctorow's most ambitious and personal work." --The Miami Herald
"A deeply personal book...an ambitious postmodern riff with a grander perspective on the universe...a novel that sets its sights on God and the galaxies that shadow the heavens...a stunning vision of metaphysics and faith, cosmology and spiritual emptiness, the rational mind and messianic longing...sparkles with Doctorow's rich language and ideas." --The Wall Street Journal
"Dazzling...enthralling and suspenseful." --Time magazine
"A great, bubbling, mewling, eloquent, despairing, joyous, agonized, earnest, desperate, and God-hungry work...brilliant." --Mirabella
"Doctorow is unequaled in his ability to breathe life into inert images and fading monuments of the past...(he) illuminates the thorny paradoxes of modern society with felicity and brio." --The New York Times Book Review
"The greatest American novel of the past 50 years...Reading City of God restores one's faith in literature." --Houston Chronicle
"Blooms with a humor and humanity...monumental." --The Los Angeles Times
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