City of God

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"Dazzling... enthralling and suspenseful." -Time magaziné ¦ "a deeply personal book...a stunning vision of metaphysics and fait'h, cosmology and spiritual emptiness, the rational mind and messianic longing.. .sparkles with öoctorow's rich language and ideas." -The Wall. Street Journal m "The greatest American növel of the past 50 years...Reading City of God restores one's faith in literature. -Houston Chronicle City of God is the crowning achievement of E. L. Doctorow's distinguished literary career-an astonishing modern masterwork of faith, mystery, and the search for spiritual authenticity. ¦ 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 an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour-deforce is a riveting detective story about a cross that vanishes from a Lower East Side church only to reappear on the roof of... Tovább

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"Dazzling... enthralling and suspenseful." -Time magaziné ¦ "a deeply personal book...a stunning vision of metaphysics and fait'h, cosmology and spiritual emptiness, the rational mind and messianic longing.. .sparkles with öoctorow's rich language and ideas." -The Wall. Street Journal m "The greatest American növel of the past 50 years...Reading City of God restores one's faith in literature. -Houston Chronicle City of God is the crowning achievement of E. L. Doctorow's distinguished literary career-an astonishing modern masterwork of faith, mystery, and the search for spiritual authenticity. ¦ 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 an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour-deforce 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 multivoiced narrative that perfectly captures the rifFs and rhythms of latter-day New York and encompasses a east of characters including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, filmmakers, and crooners, City ofGodis a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by America's preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time. ¦ "Superb...Doctorow's most ambitious and personal work." -The Miami Herald "An irresistible masterwork... Doctorow has fashioned a magically imaginative, unpredictable növel that is lushly rooted in morál T philosophy and history...a careening, rollicking delight." - The Sun (Baltimore) Vissza