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The Executioner's Song
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The Executioner's Song
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men.
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song
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The Executioner's Song is a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of murderer Gary Gilmore's desire to die. In the summer of 1976, Gilmore robbed two men and then shot them in cold blood.
No one had been executed in America for ten years, but Gilmore, rather than have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, wanted to die. His ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him a worldwide celebrity and ensured that his execution turned into a gruesome media event.
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The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer is lauded as a masterful blend of reportage and fiction, with some considering it Mailer's greatest work. Critics praise it for its unsettling exploration of moral questions, power, and human complexity, delivering a compelling and detailed narrative of Gary Gilmore's life and crimes. The book is often described as evocative, wise, and profoundly engaging.
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ISBN: 9780099688600
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 July 1989
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 47.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 702g
Pages: 1088
About the Author
Norman Mailer was born in New Jersey in January 1923 and after graduating from Harvard, served in the US army from 1944-1946. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was published to immediate critical acclaim in 1948 - and was hailed by Anthony Burgess as 'the best war novel to emerge from the United States'. He went on to publish both fiction and non-fiction, his books including Barbary Shore (1951), Advertisements for Myself (1959), The Presidential Papers (1963), An American Dream (1964), Armies of the Night (1968), Ancient Evenings (1983), and Tough Guys Don't Dance (1983). The Executioner's Song, first published in 1979, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 - an award which Mailer won twice during his writing career. Norman Mailer died in November 2007.
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