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The Gospel According to the Son : A Novel by Norman Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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 J

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Author

Norman Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812986006

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.21 / 5 (1,116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13