{"description": "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 re-imagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ\u2019s story in his own words: the discovery of his divinity and the painful, powerful journey to accepting and expressing it, \u201cas if I were a man enclosing another man within.\u201d In its brevity and piercing simplicity, it may be Mailer\u2019s most accessible, direct, and heartfelt work.\r\n \r\nPraise for The Gospel According to the Son\r\n \r\n\u201cQuietly penetrating . . . [Norman Mailer\u2019s] gospel is written in a direct, rather relaxed English that yet has an eerie, neo-Biblical dignity.\u201d\u2014John Updike, The New Yorker", "title": "The Gospel according to the Son", "covers": [14424633], "first_publish_date": "1997", "subject_people": ["Jesus Christ"], "key": "/works/OL1822212W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL218440A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL3042046A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Bible. in fiction", "Bible", "History of Biblical events", "Jesus Christ in fiction", "Romans", "Histoire des \u00e9v\u00e9nements", "Belletristische Darstellung", "Romans, nouvelles", "Histoire des \u00e9v\u00e9nements bibliques", "American fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Fiction, visionary & metaphysical", "Large type books", "New York Times reviewed", "Social life and customs", "Manners and customs"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/04/books/narrator-of-mailer-s-next-novel-jesus.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "subject_places": ["Galilee (Israel)", "Jerusalem", "Israel", "Galilee", "Middle East"], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:25:39.660399"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-09-19T10:37:04.722195"}}