The Gospel According to the Son - Hardcover

Mailer, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679457836 ISBN 13: 9780679457831

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1997

Synopsis

The story of Jesus, his life, ministry, and the events of the four gospels is revealed in the words of Jesus Christ himself, in a provocative new novel by the award-winning author of The Executioner's Song. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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The Gospel According To the Son

Review:

In the two millennia since Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their separate biographies of Jesus, only a handful of other authors have attempted renditions--Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy and D.H. Lawrence have tried their hands at it; scholars E.P. Sanders and Raymond Brown have produced academic treatises on the historical Jesus. Perhaps the best-known fictional account of the life of Jesus is Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, which explores the Son of Man's all-too-human side. Norman Mailer joins these ranks with The Gospel According to the Son.

Not content to chronicle Jesus' life in the form of an apocryphal gospel, Mailer has the audacity to crawl inside his title character's head and tell the story from the first- person point of view. Here we get the Prince of Peace's personal account of his temptation by Satan, his three-year ministry and his agony on the cross. Mailer presents an entirely new kind of passion play, one that remains faithful to the shape of Jesus' life as outlined in the gospels, while daring to imagine the inner life of this most elusive historical figure

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679457836
• ISBN 13: 9780679457831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242