The Gospel According to the Son

Zusatztext Mailer has studied the gospels with great care! and his imaginging of Jesu s' story is both respectful and respectfully inventive. Most compelling! he has tried to make sense of Jesu s' full humanity! shrewdly giving us a son of God whose evolving unders Informationen zum Autor Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book,THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, in 1948. THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. He has written thirty books. Klappentext 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."* A literary event: one of the world's greatest novelists confronts the greatest story ever told - and in the first person Zusammenfassung * A literary event: one of the world's greatest novelists confronts the greatest story ever told - and in the first person

Product details

• Authors: Norman Mailer
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.1998
• EAN: 9780349110141
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11014-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 127 mm x 197 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Alternative History, Speculative fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction