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Title details for City of God by E.L. Doctorow - Available

City of God

A Novel

by E.L. Doctorow
John Rubinstein
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
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 mystery—and by the maverick rector and the young rabbi investigating the strange act of desecration—is 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 God is a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by America’s preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time.
 
Praise for City of God
 
“A grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Dazzling . . . The true miracle of City of God is the way its disparate parts fuse into a consistently enthralling and suspenseful whole.”—Time
 
“Blooms with humor, and a humanity that carries triumphant as intelligent a novel as one might hope to find these days.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“Radiates [with] panoramic ambition and spiritual incandescence.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“One of the greatest American novels of the past fifty years . . . Reading City of God restores one’s faith in literature.”—The Houston Chronicle

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    March 4, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9780804163750
      • File size: 354992 KB
      • Duration: 12:19:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      When a cross stolen from a neighborhood church appears on the roof of a nearby synagogue, the mystery provides an opportunity for speculation on the existence of God and the nature of the universe--"profound, disastrous, hopeless infinitude," or cosmic comedy? Doctorow's style shifts from pithy philosophical theory to parodied analysis of popular song lyrics, from scientific extrapolation to Frank Sinatra to movie possibilities. Nick Sullivan delivers Doctorow's finely crafted lyric prose with intelligence and energy. He layers each character, providing distinctly different vocal textures for all, including Thomas Pemberton, the soul-searching Episcopal priest and Joshua and Sarah Green, both rabbis. CITY OF GOD offers a narrative challenge that Sullivan negotiates with finesse, making its complex "metamystical" ramble approachable and, even better, enlightening. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      This fascinating volume is hard to follow. This is not the fault of reader John Rubinstein, whose gentle, soulful voice has graced many audiobooks. The plot, the themes and the points of view are varied and convoluted. Doctorow, at times a dazzling stylist, has done some of his most layered work in this detective story of a stolen altar cross that turns up on the roof of a liberal synagogue. Perhaps this is one of those efforts that defies translation from the printed page to audiotape. Nonetheless, when one takes the huge effort to get oriented and continually reoriented, one is richly rewarded with some wonderful writing. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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