The Gospel According to the Son - Brossura

"A STAGGERING WORK."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"BOLD . . . DARING."--The New York Times Book Review

"A TRIUMPH."--Publishers Weekly

"A REMARKABLE TESTAMENT TO THE HUMANITY OF A MAN WHO TROD THE DIVINE."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"[A] BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL, AND AMBITIOUS NEW NOVEL . . . Only a novelist as daring as Mailer would attempt to retell the story of Jesus in Jesus' own words. . . . Its penetration into Jesus' human heart rivals Dostoyevsky for depth and insight. Its re-creation 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."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"QUIETLY PENETRATING . . . FRESH . . . FERVENT . . . His 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 writer's powerful mind works in a specialized way, not by theological argumentation but by telling or retelling a story."--The New York Review of Books
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.