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Original Title:	The Gospel According to the Son
ISBN:	0345434080 (ISBN13: 9780345434081)
Edition Language:	English

The Gospel According to the Son Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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Title	:	The Gospel According to the Son
Author	:	Norman Mailer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	September 7th 1999 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Religion. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. American

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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 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
 
“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
 
“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


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I think he did a good job of exploring how Jesus may have struggled with what his purpose was and his relationships. I did not agree with all of the details but I liked the concept of the book. If you did not have a good knowledge of the Bible it may be confusing.

The book is Mailers idea of how Jesus thought during his life and how events actually happened. It was very interesting until I ran across some events where Mailer short changes the reader. For instance his claim that Magdalen was the adulteress saved from stoning. This was a fantastic opportunity to dispel this non-biblical idea and say something about women. His failure made me think that he was running out of time and thought more about the money than about the book.

I was puzzled by this book. I expected a more creative, more provocative approach (something like The Autobiography of God by Franco Ferucci). It followed the text of the Gospels very closely, except in a few cases, where Jesus as narrator claims that the Gospel narrators stretched the truth.

There was a cloud of tepid foreshadowing hanging over me as I went into this Mailer novel. It was decried as a soft and near lifeless work, a dedication of sorts from the secular Jewish Mailer to his then wife of and from America's Bible Belt.But it was more than that. After reading Mailer for the last few years and hearing (in an interview with Charlie Rose I believe) that he willfully altered his style with every novel, I found myself more and enamored with his authorial ethos. Unlike, say, a

The concept sounded interesting, a novel about a Jesus told through Jesus eyes. The book had its moments, however I found the novel to be dry and boring.



this crap reads like the fucking bible! i thought i was gonna read some new shit, but...i knew the whole damn story from being forced to sit in a pew in a catholic church for 18 years. no stars!