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	~~====~~''The Gospel According to the Son''. New York: Random House, 2 May; London: Little, Brown, 18 September. Novel, 224 pp., $22.~~====~~		{{Large\|''The Gospel According to the Son''. New York: Random House, 2 May; London: Little, Brown, 18 September. Novel, 224 pp., $22.}}

	Dedication: “To [[Susan Mailer\|Susan]], [[Danielle Mailer\|Danielle]], [[Elizabeth Mailer\|Elizabeth]], [[Kate Mailer\|Kate]], [[Michael Mailer\|Michael]], [[Stephen Mailer\|Stephen]], [[Maggie Mailer\|Maggie]], [[Matthew Mailer\|Matthew]], and [[John Buffalo Mailer\|John Buffalo]].”		Dedication: “To [[Susan Mailer\|Susan]], [[Danielle Mailer\|Danielle]], [[Elizabeth Mailer\|Elizabeth]], [[Kate Mailer\|Kate]], [[Michael Mailer\|Michael]], [[Stephen Mailer\|Stephen]], [[Maggie Mailer\|Maggie]], [[Matthew Mailer\|Matthew]], and [[John Buffalo Mailer\|John Buffalo]].”

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====''The Gospel According to the Son''. New York: Random House, 2 May; London: Little, Brown, 18 September. Novel, 224 pp., $22.====

Dedication: “To [[Susan Mailer|Susan]], [[Danielle Mailer|Danielle]], [[Elizabeth Mailer|Elizabeth]], [[Kate Mailer|Kate]], [[Michael Mailer|Michael]], [[Stephen Mailer|Stephen]], [[Maggie Mailer|Maggie]], [[Matthew Mailer|Matthew]], and [[John Buffalo Mailer|John Buffalo]].”

Acknowledgments: “I would like to give an acknowledgment to my wife, [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]]; to my assistant, Judith McNally; to my friends [[J. Michael Lennon|Michael Lennon]] and [[Robert F. Lucid|Robert Lucid]]; to Veronica Windholz; and to James and Gaynell Davis, who all offered signal contributions to this work. And not least, to Jason Epstein, Joy de Menil, and Andrew Wylie.”

Rpt: All of 97.13 was published in the (New York) ''Daily News'' ([[97.6]]) in 19 parts before book publication. Advance excerpts also appeared in the ''New York Times'' ([[97.8]]) and the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' ([[97.9]]). Seven excerpts are reprinted in ''The Time of Our Time'' ([[98.7]]). See 1997 entries.

{{cquote|So I thought: If I can write about Osiris and Ra, then certainly the New Testament is not going to be that difficult to do. And in a sense, it wasn’t. In contrast to the complexity of the ancient Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris, this is simpler and more beautiful. And far more cohesive. It was perfectly conceivable to me that one could have a character in a novel who’s the son of God. Novelists are supposed to look into the eye of the tiger.|author={{NM}}|source=[[97.3]]}}

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==Bibliography==
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'''Reviews'''
* {{cite magazine |last=Gelernter |first=David |date=July 28, 1997 |title=One Gospel Too Many |url= |magazine=National Review |pages=55–56 |publisher= |access-date= }} Negative.
* {{cite magazine |last=Gray |first=Paul |date=April 23, 1997 |title=Using the Lord’s Name |url= |magazine=Time |page=75 |publisher= |access-date= }} Negative.
* {{cite news |last=Kakutani |first=Michiko |date=April 14, 1997 |title=Norman Mailer’s Perception of Jesus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/14/books/norman-mailer-s-perception-of-jesus.html |work=New York Times |location=Sec. B. |page=7 |access-date=2019-03-11 }} Negative. See [[95.36]].
* {{cite magazine |last=Kermode |first=Frank |date=May 15, 1997 |title=Advertisements for Himself |url= |magazine=New York Review of Books |pages=4, 6–8 |publisher= |access-date= }} Positive.
* {{cite magazine |author= |title=Review of ''The Gospel According to the Son'' |url= |magazine=Publisher's Weekly |location= |page=59 |date=March 31, 1997 |access-date= }} Positive. Rpt: On the dust jacket of the second impression and the back cover of the subsequent Random House softcover edition.
* {{cite magazine |last=Moore |first=Steven |date=April 27, 1997 |title=Mailer and the Not-So-Good News |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1997/04/27/mailer-and-the-not-so-good-news/9629686f-aa69-4668-9b8b-2b6a6c42fa48/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.244d33c6bfe4 |magazine=Washington Post Book World |pages=1, 9 |publisher= |access-date=2019-03-11 }} Negative.
* {{cite magazine |last=Price |first=Reynolds |date=May 4, 1997 |title=Mailer, Mark, Luke and John |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/04/books/mailer-mark-luke-and-john.html |magazine=New York Times Book Review |page=4 |publisher= |access-date=2019-03-11 }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Updike |first=John |date=May 4, 1997 |title=Stones into Bread |url= |magazine=New Yorker |pages=92–94, 96–97 |publisher= |access-date= }} Positive.
* {{cite news |last=Wilson |first=A. N. |date=April 24, 1997 |title=Don’t Take This Autobiography as Gospel |url= |work=Daily Telegraph |page=24 |access-date= }}

'''Essays'''
* {{cite book |last=Bernstein |first=Mashey |date=2010 |chapter=A Jewish Reading of ''The Gospel of the Son'' |title=Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: ''Ancient Evenings'' through ''Castle in the Forest'' |editor-last=Whalen-Bridge |editor-first=John|url= |location=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=73–84 |isbn= |author-link=Mashey Bernstein }}
* {{cite book |last=Howley |first=Ashton |date=2010 |chapter=Mailer’s ‘Gnostic’ ''Gospel'' |title=Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: ''Ancient Evenings'' through ''Castle in the Forest'' |editor-last=Whalen-Bridge |editor-first=John|url= |location=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=55–72 |isbn= |author-link= }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Macdonald |first1=Brian |date=Fall 2006 |title=Post-Holocaust Theodicy, American Imperialism, and the ‘very Jewish Jesus’ of Norman Mailer’s ''The Gospel According to the Son'' |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue= |pages=78–103 |doi= |access-date= }}
* {{cite book |last=Partridge |first=Jeffrey F. L. |date=2010 |chapter=Augustinian Evil in ''The Gospel According to the Son'' and ''The Castle in the Forest'': A Case for Non-Dualism |title=Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: ''Ancient Evenings'' through ''Castle in the Forest'' |editor-last=Whalen-Bridge |editor-first=John|url= |location=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=85–102 |isbn= |author-link= }}

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