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City of God audiobook
- By: E.L. Doctorow
- Narrator: John Rubinstein
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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City of God Audiobook Summary
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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City of God Audiobook Narrator
John Rubinstein is the narrator of City of God audiobook that was written by E.L. Doctorow
About the Author(s) of City of God
E.L. Doctorow is the author of City of God
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City of God Full Details
| Narrator | John Rubinstein |
| Length | 12 hours 17 minutes |
| Author | E.L. Doctorow |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780804163743 |
Subjects
The publisher of the City of God is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: 2000s, 20th century, american, american literature, christianity, contemporary fiction, holocaust, judaism, literature, mystery, new york, new york city, philosophy, religion, literary fiction, fiction, novels, religious books, fiction books, religious, books fiction, realistic fiction books, spirituality, essays, collection, short stories, psychology, classic, relationships, americana, writing, love, science fiction, spiritual, historical, aging, modern, love story, memory, death, drama, friendship, 21st century, romance, family, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical, Fiction, Religious The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the City of God is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780804163743.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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