The Resource City of God : a novel, E.L. Doctorow
City of God : a novel, E.L. Doctorow
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The item City of God : a novel, E.L. Doctorow represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain - sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age. But now he has found a story he thinks may become his next novel. The large brass cross that hung behind the alter of St. Timothy's, a run-down Episcopal church in lower Manhattan, has disappeared ... and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and the young woman rabbi who leads the synagogue are trying to learn who committed this strange double act of desecration and why. Befriending them, the novelist finds that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the cast. Into his workbook go his taped interviews, insights, preliminary drafts ... and as he joins the clerics in pursuit of the mystery, it broadens to implicate a large cast of vividly drawn characters - including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, New York Times reporters, filmmakers, and crooners - in what proves to be a quest for an authentic spirituality at the end of this tortured century."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780679447832
- Label
- City of God : a novel
- Title
- City of God
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- E.L. Doctorow
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain - sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age. But now he has found a story he thinks may become his next novel. The large brass cross that hung behind the alter of St. Timothy's, a run-down Episcopal church in lower Manhattan, has disappeared ... and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and the young woman rabbi who leads the synagogue are trying to learn who committed this strange double act of desecration and why. Befriending them, the novelist finds that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the cast. Into his workbook go his taped interviews, insights, preliminary drafts ... and as he joins the clerics in pursuit of the mystery, it broadens to implicate a large cast of vividly drawn characters - including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, New York Times reporters, filmmakers, and crooners - in what proves to be a quest for an authentic spirituality at the end of this tortured century."--Jacket
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1931-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Doctorow, E. L.
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.O3
- LC item number
- C57 2000
- Literary form
- fiction
- PerformerNote
- Read by John Rubinstein
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- City and town life
- Spiritual life
- Religious fiction
- New York (N.Y.)
- Label
- City of God : a novel, E.L. Doctorow
- Control code
- ocm42690125
- Isbn
- 9780679447832
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99053215
- Label
- City of God : a novel, E.L. Doctorow
- Control code
- ocm42690125
- Isbn
- 9780679447832
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99053215
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