The item you selected is unavailable, but we found something similar.

Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

City of God by E. L. Doctorow (2001, UK-B Format Paperback, Reprint)

2.01 product rating

ZUBER (237486)
98.1% positive feedback

Price:

$20.95

Free shipping

Estimated delivery Wed, May 8 - Mon, May 13

Returns:

30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.

Condition:

Brand New

CITY OF GOD By E. L. Doctorow **BRAND NEW**.

About this product

Product Information

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 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. 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452282098
ISBN-13
9780452282094
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1759641

Product Key Features

Book Title
City of God
Author
E. L. Doctorow
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Religious, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"An irresistible masterwork...Doctorow has fashioned a magically imaginative, unpredictable novel that is lushly rooted in moral philosophy and history...a careening, rollicking delight." -- The Baltimore Sun "Dazzling...heartbreaking, and superb...Doctorow's most ambitious and personal work." -- The Miami Herald "A deeply personal book...an ambitious postmodern riff with a grander perspective on the universe...a novel that sets its sights on God and the galaxies that shadow the heavens...a stunning vision of metaphysics and faith, cosmology and spiritual emptiness, the rational mind and messianic longing...sparkles with Doctorow's rich language and ideas." -- The Wall Street Journal "Dazzling...enthralling and suspenseful." -- Time magazine "A great, bubbling, mewling, eloquent, despairing, joyous, agonized, earnest, desperate, and God-hungry work...brilliant." -- Mirabella "Doctorow is unequaled in his ability to breathe life into inert images and fading monuments of the past...{he} illuminates the thorny paradoxes of modern society with felicity and brio." -- The New York Times Book Review "The greatest American novel of the past 50 years...Reading City of God restores one's faith in literature." -- Houston Chronicle "Blooms with a humor and humanity...monumental." -- The Los Angeles Times, "An irresistible masterwork...Doctorow has fashioned a magically imaginative, unpredictable novel that is lushly rooted in moral philosophy and history...a careening, rollicking delight." -- The Baltimore Sun "Dazzling...heartbreaking, and superb...Doctorow''s most ambitious and personal work." -- The Miami Herald "A deeply personal book...an ambitious postmodern riff with a grander perspective on the universe...a novel that sets its sights on God and the galaxies that shadow the heavens...a stunning vision of metaphysics and faith, cosmology and spiritual emptiness, the rational mind and messianic longing...sparkles with Doctorow''s rich language and ideas." -- The Wall Street Journal "Dazzling...enthralling and suspenseful." -- Time magazine "A great, bubbling, mewling, eloquent, despairing, joyous, agonized, earnest, desperate, and God-hungry work...brilliant." -- Mirabella "Doctorow is unequaled in his ability to breathe life into inert images and fading monuments of the past...{he} illuminates the thorny paradoxes of modern society with felicity and brio." -- The New York Times Book Review "The greatest American novel of the past 50 years...Reading City of God restores one''s faith in literature." -- Houston Chronicle "Blooms with a humor and humanity...monumental." -- The Los Angeles Times
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-053215
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21

All listings for this product

item 1 City of God by Doctorow, E. L.
$3.79
Free shipping
item 2 City of God by Doctorow, E. L. , paperback
$4.47
Free shipping
item 3 City of God - Paperback By Doctorow, E. L. - VERY GOOD
$5.08
Free shipping
item 4 City of God - Paperback By Doctorow, E. L. - GOOD
$5.08
Free shipping
item 5 City of God by Doctorow, E. L.
$5.09
Free shipping
item 6 City of God by Doctorow, E. L.
$6.28
Free shipping
item 7 City of God
$6.37
Free shipping

See all 22

2.0

2.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating

1 product rating

0 users rated this 5 out of 5 stars
0 users rated this 4 out of 5 stars
0 users rated this 3 out of 5 stars
1 users rated this 2 out of 5 stars
0 users rated this 1 out of 5 stars

Would recommend

Good value

Compelling content

Most relevant reviews

2 out of 5 stars
by petey_mitchell*Jan 05, 2018
Book
Doesn’t hold my attention. Have not finished reading
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned

Best Selling in Books

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by Claude Davis (2018, Paperback)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 384 product ratings
$35.59 New
---- Used
The Empyrean Ser.: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (2023, Hardcover)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 3 product ratings
$15.00 New
$12.75 Used
The 4 Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss (Hardcover, 2010, First Edition)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating
$12.00 New
$9.24 Used
A Court of Thorns and Roses Ser.: A Court of Thorns and Roses Paperback Box Set (5 Books) by Sarah J. Maas (2022, Trade Paperback)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating
$45.05 New
$7.00 Used
Outlive Gifford Bil (2023,Paperback)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 8 product ratings
$11.92 New
$8.99 Used
Magic Tree House (R) Ser.: Magic Tree House Books 1-28 Boxed Set by Mary Pope Osborne (2008, S)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 83 product ratings
$39.95 New
$15.00 Used
The Book of Enoch by Enoch (2017, Hardcover)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 139 product ratings
$16.46 New
$14.97 Used

Save on Books

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Books

Sailor Moon Raisonne ART WORKS 1991 - 2023 Normal Edition 9784065309094
$47.99
Trending at $58.99
😇, 😇DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERSvTEXT REVISION DSM 5 TR
$36.90
Trending at $42.75
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer by The Goldman Family (English) Paperback
$17.69
Trending at $17.95
THE BOOK OF ENOCH - Translated by R. H Charles (1917 Translation, Hardback)
$14.25
Trending at $16.46
Magic Tree House Books 1-31 Boxed Set by Mary Pope Osborne New- Wrapper Is Torn
$28.00
Trending at $39.95
Trading in the Zone: Master the Market Confidence Paperback
$11.13
Trending at $14.09