The Gospel According to the Son

Name: The Gospel According to the Son
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 9781522637271

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: John Buffalo Mailer

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/25/2016

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

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.

About Norman Mailer

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by BookHunter محمد

لم يتسن ليسوع أن يكتب إنجيله الخاص به أو ربما لم يفكر بذلك أبدا. و على غرار الإنجيل يرويه المسيح لساراماجو و المسيح ليس مسيحيا لبرنارد شو فإن ميلر هنا يتصدى لكتابة الإنجيل من وجهة نظره. إنجيل لا يبرز ابن الله بقدر ما يحاول التعرف على ابن الإنسان. و لأن الشعب المسيحي على مر التاريخ قد رفع يسوع إلى م......more

Goodreads review by Jason

I must first admit that it is the height of pretention to write a fictional autobiography of Jesus Christ, but this is Norman Mailer we're talking about. And in this case, it's Mailer at his creative and witty best. He takes the gospel story and tells it like Christ might tell it over s'mores sittin......more

Goodreads review by Julio

"Being a young Jesus must have been a lot like being Clark Kent. You have these amazing powers but you can't tell anybody about them."---Dennis Leary Norman Mailer's Gospel falls somewhere between Nikos Kazantzakis's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, where Jesus is an ordinary guy with the charisma of W......more

Goodreads review by Ahmed

إنجيل الإبن ….. نورمان ميلر (وَاذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَابِ مَرْيَمَ إِذِ انتَبَذَتْ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا مَكَانًا شَرْقِيًّا،فَاتَّخَذَتْ مِن دُونِهِمْ حِجَابًا فَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهَا رُوحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرًا سَوِيًّا،قَالَتْ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِالرَّحْمَن مِنكَ إِن كُنتَ تَقِيًّا،قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَنَا ر......more