![]() ![]() ![]() Befriending them, the novelist finds that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the case. ![]() The church's maverick rector and the young woman rabbi who leads the synagogue are trying to learn who committed this strange double act of desecration and why. Timothy's, a run-down Episcopal church in lower Manhattan, has disappeared.and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, on the Upper West Side. 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. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age. 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. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York - a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first. ![]()
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