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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.

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Harvard, he served as a rifleman in the South Pacific during World War II. He published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. The Gospel According to the Son is his thirtieth book. Mailer won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for The Armies of the Night and was awarded the Pulitzer prize again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He has directed four feature-length films, was a co-founder of The Village Voice in 1955, ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York in 1969, and was President of the American PEN from 1984 to 1986.