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Damascus Gate by Robert Stone (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395665698
ISBN-139780395665695
eBay Product ID (ePID)240202
Product Key Features
Edition1
Book TitleDamascus Gate
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / General, Literary, Political, Thrillers / Terrorism
Publication Year1998
GenreFiction
TypeTextbook
AuthorRobert Stone
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight30 oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-049615
Reviews"But while the religious quests of Stone's characters help drive his story, the novel is ultimately concerned less with metaphysics and cosmic order than with the earthly realm of politics and the human craving for certainty. The characters in Damascus Gate may be "God- struck," they may dream insistently of a better world, but like so many Stone characters, they end up captives of history and their own very human illusions." The New York Times "Heavy as a marble tablet, it delivers revelations about character and culture in the way that only a dense, textured novel can.... Precise and passionate, Damascus Gate is a stunning achievement." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truth--and its effect on those who think they own it--with intensity, intellectual rigor and abiding morality." The San Francisco Chronicle "The writing, often dense with metaphor and landscape, is powerful, and the result is a pulsing, profound novel...." Entertainment Weekly, The writing, often dense with metaphor and landscape, is powerful,and the result is a pulsing, profound novel...., "But while the religious quests of Stone's characters help drive his story, the novel is ultimately concerned less with metaphysics and cosmic order than with the earthly realm of politics and the human craving for certainty. The characters in Damascus Gate may be "God- struck," they may dream insistently of a better world, but like so many Stone characters, they end up captives of history and their own very human illusions." e" The New York Times "Heavy as a marble tablet, it delivers revelations about character and culture in the way that only a dense, textured novel can.... Precise and passionate, Damascus Gate is a stunning achievement." e" Philadelphia Inquirer "Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truthe"and its effect on those who think they own ite"with intensity, intellectual rigor and abiding morality." e" San Francisco Chronicle "The writing, often dense with metaphor and landscape, is powerful, and the result is a pulsing, profound novel...." e" Entertainment Weekly, "But while the religious quests of Stone's characters help drive his story, the novel is ultimately concerned less with metaphysics and cosmic order than with the earthly realm of politics and the human craving for certainty. The characters in Damascus Gate may be "God- struck," they may dream insistently of a better world, but like so many Stone characters, they end up captives of history and their own very human illusions.", Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truth--and its effect on those who think they own it--with intensity, intellectual rigor and abiding morality., Heavy as a marble tablet, it delivers revelations about character and culture in the way that only a dense, textured novel can.... Precise and passionate, Damascus Gate is a stunning achievement., "But while the religious quests of Stone's characters help drive his story, the novel is ultimately concerned less with metaphysics and cosmic order than with the earthly realm of politics and the human craving for certainty. The characters in Damascus Gate may be "God- struck," they may dream insistently of a better world, but like so many Stone characters, they end up captives of history and their own very human illusions." - The New York Times "Heavy as a marble tablet, it delivers revelations about character and culture in the way that only a dense, textured novel can.... Precise and passionate, Damascus Gate is a stunning achievement." - Philadelphia Inquirer "Damascus Gate asks enormous questions about cosmic truth-and its effect on those who think they own it-with intensity, intellectual rigor and abiding morality." - San Francisco Chronicle "The writing, often dense with metaphor and landscape, is powerful, and the result is a pulsing, profound novel...." - Entertainment Weekly
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
SynopsisWith 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.T6418D36 1998
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