City of God

Zusatztext CITY OF GOD is a very good novel about contemporary America and its troubled search for reconciliation between science and faith. Informationen zum Autor E. L. Doctorow's novels include Andrew's Brain , Homer and Langley , The March , City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, Lives of the Poets, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate and The Waterworks. Among his honours are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. He died in July 2015. Klappentext A literary mystery set in the Jewish and Christian communities of New York as the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of a brass cross is researched. Written by the author of "Billy Bathgate" and "Ragtime". A literary mystery set amongst the religious communities of New York City - which deepens into addressing the great moral questions of the last century. Zusammenfassung A literary mystery set amongst the religious communities of New York City - which deepens into addressing the great moral questions of the last century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: E L Doctorow, E. L. Doctorow
• Verlag: Abacus
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2001
• EAN: 9780349113524
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11352-4
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 200 mm x 132 mm x 21 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary