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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.75cm); pale blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-519,[1]pp. Faintest suggestion of foxing to text edges, else a clean, Near Fine copy with a small ownership stamp of J.C. Sealy on the front pastedown. Dustjacket is unclipped with a hint of sunning to spine, and some faint, scattered foxing and minor chipping at the heel of the spine and light west to the hinges. The Greek author's fourth book, imagining an alternate fate for Jesus Christ. First British edition of this historical novel, basis for the 1988 Academy nominated film. Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels that brilliantly fleshes out Christ's Passion. This literary rendering of the life of Jesus Christ has courted controversy since its publication by depicting a Christ far more human than the one seen in the Bible. He is a figure who is gloriously divine but earthy and human, a man like any othersubject to fear, doubt, and pain. "A searing, soaring, shocking novel: (Time). Basis for the 1988 film directed by Martin Scorsese starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Andre Gregory, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie.…