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Damascus Gate (signed Limited Edition In Original Plastic)
by Stone, Robert
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- Hardcover
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- As New with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. As New with no dust jacket. 1998. 1st Thus. Leather. 500 pages; All edges gilt, full decorative leather, signed by author, As New in original plastic. Map End Papers, Ribbon Marker, 500 pp. , Frontispiece by Earl Keleny. One of the signed, limited copies. Damascus Gate is one of the main entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. Stone returned to the complex political novel with Damascus Gate (1998) , about a man with messianic delusions caught up in a terrorist plot in Jerusalem. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award for 1998.; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemption - and about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind-altering pilgrimage, a race through riot-filled Jerusalem streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze, a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple Mount - Damascus Gate is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities that haunt the holiest of cities and its seekers, cynics, hustlers, and madmen. Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, Damascus Gate is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truth - or some version of it - and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith.
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- Title
- Damascus Gate (signed Limited Edition In Original Plastic)
- Author
- Stone, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- New As New with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1998
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