
A New York novelist probes faith, history, and mystery after a church cross vanishes and reappears on a synagogue, interweaving 20th-century reflections on God and meaning.
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A New York novelist probes faith, history, and mystery after a church cross vanishes and reappears on a synagogue, interweaving 20th-century reflections on God and meaning.
In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain--sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age. But now he has found a story he thinks may be-come his next novel: The large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's, a run-down Episco-pal church in lower Manhattan,...
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Holocaust survivor account and war service narratives from WWI, WWII, and Vietnam
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Central focus on clergy, churches, synagogues, faith struggles, and spiritual questing
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Reflections on 20th-century wars, Holocaust, and historical disasters
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Holocaust experiences and wartime suffering recounted
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