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Not content to chronicle Jesus' life in the form of an apocryphal gospel, Mailer has the chutzpah 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.
Mailer is brilliant in depicting the human side of Jesus -- his confusion and pride as he comes to understand who he is; his love for sinners, and hatred of the pious; his terror at his impending fate and, above all, his grappling with the limits of his powers ... The Gospel According to the Son's penetration into Jesus's human heart rivals Dostoyevsky for depth and insight. Its recreation of the world through which Jesus walked is as real as blood. Ultimately, Mailer convinces, more than any writer before him, that for Jesus the man it could have been just like this; and that is, in itself, some sort of literary miracle."
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christs 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 Mailers most accessible, direct, and heartfelt work. Praise for The Gospel According to the Son Quietly penetrating . . . [Norman Mailers] gospel is written in a direct, rather relaxed English that yet has an eerie, neo-Biblical dignity.John Updike, The New Yorker A book of considerable intellectual force . . . The writers powerful mind works in a specialized way, not by theological argumentation but by telling or retelling a story.The New York Review of Books Challenges readers on the religious right and the atheist left with equally rich interpretive tasks.The Dallas Morning News An informed and believable work of fiction . . . of what may have been going through the mind of Jesus during his epic ministry.San Francisco Chronicle Praise for Norman Mailer [Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.The New York Times A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.The New Yorker Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.The Washington Post A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.Life Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.The New York Review of Books The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.Chicago Tribune Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.The Cincinnati Post A novel of the life of Jesus, this highly readable account tells of a man thrust forward by the visions he receives, the sermons he offers, and the miracles he enacts--until he comes to the apocalyptic end of his powers. "Bold . . . daring."--"New York Times Book Review." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780345434081
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