"A fresh and humane take on the Gospels. Gordon's approach is aware of, but not burdened by, doctrine. Her many insightful questions give expression to thoughts which have, for many readers and for many years, been waiting to be asked aloud."

Mark Jarman, author of Epistles

"Gordon tackles the power and puzzle of the Christian gospels with measure and imagination, providing welcome relief for those left cold by scholarly or fundamentalist parsing...Her savoring of particular lines is poetic and amplifies the beauty and sometimes ambiguous challenge of the language, stories, and injunctions of the gospels."

Publisher's Weekly

Mary Gordon is the author of six novels, including The Company of Women, Final Payments, Spending, and Pearl; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and The Stories of Mary Gordon. 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.

Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels (Hardcover)

By Mary Gordon

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780375424571
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pantheon, 10/01/2009

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