Description
* A literary event: one of the world's greatest novelists confronts the greatest story ever told - and in the first person
It's penetration into Jesus's human heart rivals Dostoyevsky for depth and insight
A compellingly beautiful performance
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.
Hypnotically engaging
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
Norman Mailer has won the National Book Award once and the Pulitzer Prize twice, for ARMIES OF THE NIGHT and THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. This is his thirtieth book.