Robert Stone - Damascus GateRelease Date: May 14, 1998 |
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Robert Stone - Damascus Gate - With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemption - and about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind-altering pilgrimage, a race through riot-filled Jerusalem streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze, a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple Mount - Damascus Gate is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities that haunt the holiest of cities and its seekers, cynics, hustlers, and madmen. Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, Damascus Gate is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truth - or some version of it - and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith.
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| Authors | Robert Stone |
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| Fiction Genre | Current Events • Juvenile Ficti |
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| Fiction Subgenre | • • • • • • • • |
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| Awards | 1998 National Book Award |
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| Professional Reviews | Bukiet, Melvin Jules, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review: "In lesser hands, this book might be a jumble or a passable thriller; instead, it rivets with the terror and sorrow of its inquiry into how we believe, and how our beliefs wreck as much as they sustain." |
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| Book Editions | PaperbackReprint512May 01, 1999Touchstone Books8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.2 lbs.9780684859118 |
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