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The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
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Description for The Executioner's Song
Paperback. In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years. Num Pages: 1088 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 131 x 50. Weight in Grams: 734.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years.
But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
1072
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1088
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099688600
SKU
V9780099688600
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About Norman Mailer
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Executioner's Song
This is by far the best thing Mailer ever wrote
New Statesman,
Books of the Year
His greatest work was his 1979 epic The Executioner's Song… a masterpiece of reportage, fiction and stylistic writing
Observer
A deeply unsettling account of a particular ordeal that suggests larger questions: the moralities of power's ends and means, the character ... Read more
New Statesman,
Books of the Year
His greatest work was his 1979 epic The Executioner's Song… a masterpiece of reportage, fiction and stylistic writing
Observer
A deeply unsettling account of a particular ordeal that suggests larger questions: the moralities of power's ends and means, the character ... Read more