{"product_id":"city-of-god","title":"City of God","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCity of God\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eE L Doctorow\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780452282094\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePlume\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe crowning achievement of E. L. Doctorow's distinguished literary career--an astonishing modern masterwork of faith, mystery, and the search for spiritual authenticity. \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"City of God | E L Doctorow | Paperback | 9780452282094 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1390708 (temp: 6)","offer_id":48753879941272,"sku":"1390708","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71cl8O-NJhL.jpg?v=1771918541","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/city-of-god","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}