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* A literary event: one of the world's greatest novelists confronts the greatest story ever told - and in the first person

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It's penetration into Jesus's human heart rivals Dostoyevsky for depth and insight * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
A compellingly beautiful performance * - IRISH TIMES *
His gospel is written in a direct, rather relaxed English that has an eerie, neo-Biblical dignity - the tone as a whole is quietly penetrating. -- John Updike
Hypnotically engaging * - TLS *
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 * BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE *

The Gospel According To The Son

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 8/6/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780349110141, 978-0349110141
      ISBN10: 034911014X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      * A literary event: one of the world's greatest novelists confronts the greatest story ever told - and in the first person

      Trade Review
      It's penetration into Jesus's human heart rivals Dostoyevsky for depth and insight * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
      A compellingly beautiful performance * - IRISH TIMES *
      His gospel is written in a direct, rather relaxed English that has an eerie, neo-Biblical dignity - the tone as a whole is quietly penetrating. -- John Updike
      Hypnotically engaging * - TLS *
      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 * BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE *

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