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City of God
City of God
Author: E. L. Doctorow
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679447832
ISBN-10: 0679447830
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Not as engrossing as Doctorow's previous works. For those who like the enmeshing of religion and the evolving prose of Doctorow's style, maybe worth a read. But this book is nowhere as engrossing as Doctorow's "Billy Bathgate," and I would wholly recommend that book over this one. Characters in this book are not as riveting or seem as fully fleshed out.


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