City of God

First edition. First Printing with full number line beginning with a "2" as was customary with Random House. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 272, [8]. Linen-backed black cloth over black paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; deckled fore-edge. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. Book design by Victoria Wong.

Price-sticker residue to lower dustwrapper panel, else Fine.

Author's ninth novel. The theft and mysterious reappearance of a cross from a Manhattan church precipitates a hunt for the culprits that will soon uncover a strange prophecy about a rebirth of the United States. Among the author's many honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the PEN/Faulkner Award and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal. "A stunning vision of metaphysics and faith, cosmology and spiritual emptiness, the rational mind and messianic longing...sparkles with Doctorow's rich language and ideas." –Wall Street Journal