The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1998, Paperback) 
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1998, Paperback)

 
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1998, Paperback)

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375700811
ISBN-13: 9780375700811
Product ID: EPID480252
Description: Mailer's remarkable 1000-page "nonfiction novel" tells the story of the murderer Gary Gilmore. After a series of crimes, including cold-blooded murder, Gilmore is apprehended, tried, and sentenced to death. He accepts his fate without a ...
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Synopsis
Mailer's remarkable 1000-page "nonfiction novel" tells the story of the murderer Gary Gilmore. After a series of crimes, including cold-blooded murder, Gilmore is apprehended, tried, and sentenced to death. He accepts his fate without a fight, believing that he should die--when he is granted a stay of execution, he attempts suicide. By means of a series of interviews, Mailer focuses not only on Gilmore's story but on the media coverage of the trial and its aftermath, and the insights it provides into the American justice system and the American psyche. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980.

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Publication Date:1998-05-01

Size
Length:1056 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:2.0 in
Weight:28.8 oz

Publisher's Note
In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.

Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer PrizeIn what is arguably his greatest book, Americas most heroically ambitious writer followsthe short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of Americasprisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, thenkilling them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting ondying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent onkeeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer tells Gilmores story--and those of the men and women caught up in hisprocession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority, steely compassion, and arestraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmores Utah. TheExecutioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources ofAmerican loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down, impossible to forget.

Industry Reviews
"[A] stupendous success."
Chicago Tribune Books - John Cheever

"I think no one but Mailer could have dared this book. The authentic Western voice, the voice heard in THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, is one heard often in life but only rarely in literature, the reason being that to truly know the West is to lack all will to write it down. The very subject of THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG is that vast emptiness at the center of Western experience, a nihilism antithetical not only to literature but to most other forms of human endeavor, a dread so close to zero that human voices fade out, trail off, like skywriting....This is an absolutely astonishing book."
New York Times Book Review - Joan Didion (10/07/1979)

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