Damascus Gate (Magill Book Reviews)

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Robert Stone’s DAMASCUS GATE assembles an enormous roster of characters whose internal conflicts are only slightly less noticeable than the welter of jarring extremes one finds in modern Jerusalem. The novel’s central character, Christopher Lucas, has a Catholic and Jewish background. He feels, as a result, that he belongs nowhere, except amid the conflicting extremes of modern Jerusalem. These feelings inspire a book on what he and his collaborator, Dr. Pinchas Obermann, call the Jerusalem Syndrome.

The city seems to draw the idealistic and disaffected of every variety, and...

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