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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Robert Stone |
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Current Events · Juvenile Fiction |
| Awards: |
1998 National Book Award |
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Professional Reviews
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Kirkus: "Stone's boldest and, arguably, best novel is this year's 'Mason & Dixon' or 'Underworld'. Not to be missed." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 512
Publisher: Touchstone Books (May 01, 1999)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.2 lbs.
ISBN: 9780684859118 |
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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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