The Gospel according to the Son

By Norman Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer

Subjects: Bible, Bible. in fiction, Histoire des événements bibliques, Fiction, visionary & metaphysical, Romans, Large type books, Manners and customs, Romans, nouvelles, Jesus Christ in fiction, Histoire des événements, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Social life and customs, Belletristische Darstellung, History of Biblical events

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