num_pages: 272
description: 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 his age. But now he has found a story he thinks may become his next novel: The large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's, a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan, has disappeared...and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, on the Upper West Side...
language: English
title: City of God
titlecomplete: City of God
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, 21st Century, Philosophy, Religion, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2769
places: New York City, New York
publisher:  London: Little, Brown and Company