Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels

Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers--and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness--is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.

Author: Mary Gordon
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/02/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.22w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780307277626

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/12/2010 pg. 28

About the Author

Mary Gordon is the author of six novels, including The Company of Women, Final Payments, and Spending; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and a collection of short stories. She is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.