May 05, 2000

Books

City of God

City of GodE.L. DoctorowRandom House, $25, 272 pp.

Paul Elie

One evening not long ago, walking home from work, I stopped at a secondhand bookshop in Greenwich Village. My old copy of The Long Loneliness had split down the spine, and I wanted another just like it. The shop was not thronged; by now I know where the religious stuff is kept, on some narrow shelves in the back between the literary criticism and the psychology. The Dorothy D (...)


 

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