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Can I read The Gospel According to the Son on EtoBox?
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Gospel According to the Son about?
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 mi
Who reads The Gospel According to the Son?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780517401125
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.21 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14