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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780345434081
For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene
preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western
civilization’s triumphs and disasters. Now, Norman Mailer has
written a novel about Jesus’s life. 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? It soon becomes
evident that we are being told the story of a skilled and most
devout carpenter who is living with prodigious questions. The
result is an intimately readable account of a man thrust forward by
the visions he receives, the sermons he offers, and the miracles he
enacts until he comes to the apocalyptic end of his powers. The
Gospel According to the Son vividly recreates the world of Galilee
and Jerusalem two thousand years ago. In a time of uneasy
stability, the Holy Land is governed by a complacent but fearful
establishment who rule over a despairing underclass — it is a time
of great change, open to comparison with our own. Mailer’s signal
accomplishment is to create for us a man wholly unlike others who
is nonetheless filled with passion and doubt, strength and
weakness; a protagonist divine and human, a son of God who shares
our condition. In The Gospel According to the Son, one of America’s
greatest living writers has brought us a remarkable book — by
turns bold, thoughtful, poetic, tragic, passionate, and, to our
surprise and pleasure, suspenseful. “From the Hardcover
edition.”
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