The Gospel according to the Son

Description

Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer re-imagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his own words: the discovery of his divinity and the painful, powerful journey to accepting and expressing it, “as if I were a man enclosing another man within.” In its brevity and piercing simplicity, it may be Mailer’s most accessible, direct, and heartfelt work. Praise for The Gospel According to the Son “Quietly penetrating . . . [Norman Mailer’s] gospel is written in a direct, rather relaxed English that yet has an eerie, neo-Biblical dignity.”—John Updike, The New Yorker

Subjects

Links

• Contributor biographical information
• Sample text
• Publisher description
• URL
• URL
• URL

Other Editions

• The Gospel according to the SonRandom House1997-01-01
• The Gospel according to the SonRandom House1997-01-01
• The Gospel according to the SonCompass Press1997-01-01
• The Gospel according to the SonLittle, Brown and Co.1997-01-01
• The Gospel according to the sonAbacus1998-01-01
• The Gospel According to the SonPaperbackBallantine Books1998-01-28