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DAMASCUS GATE
by Stone, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395665698
- ISBN 13
- 9780395665695
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by Author on title page. thick 8vo, black cloth with gilt titles over beige hardcover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with Gnostic serpent designed by Michaela Sullivan, double-page map endpapers: one of Jerusalem; the other of Northern Israel, [x] + 500 pages. Frank Conroy calls the mystery "An astonishing and thrilling novel. By turns, scary, funny, and deeply moving . . . Stone is a genius." Two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the author is also a National Book Award Nominee. EXCEPTIONAL COPY! SIGNED! Deals with a sinister plot to bomb the Temple Mount . . . with many complications!
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1157
- Title
- DAMASCUS GATE
- Author
- Stone, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395665698
- ISBN 13
- 9780395665695
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Jerusalem, mystery, death, religion, Jews, Temple Mount, Arabs, bombs, Al-Aksa mosque, politics
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Cloth
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