Random House 1997. 243 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, 243 pp. New,clean copy
For 2,000 years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has
remained the largest single determinant of Western civilisation's
triumphs and disasters. In THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON, Norman
Mailer gives the protagonist of one of the greatest tragedies of all
time a chance to tell the story of his life in his own words. 'Is God
speaking to me?' Jesus asks, 'or am I hearing voices? If the voices are
from God, why has he chosen me as His son? and if they are not from
God, then who gave me the power to perform these miracles?' This is a
gripping account of a man thrust forward by the visions he receives and
the miracles he enacts until he has come to the very limit of human
possibilities.