The Executioner's Song
By Norman Mailer
Foreword by Dave Eggers
Read by Maxwell Hamilton
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This is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore, now in a brand-new edition. Arguably the greatest book from America’s most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner’s Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. And that fight for the right to die is what made him famous. Mailer tells not only Gilmore’s story but those of the men and women caught in the web of his life and drawn into his procession toward the firing squad. All with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscape and stern theology of Gilmore’s Utah. The Executioner’s Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest source of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement—impossible to put down, impossible to forget.
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Summary
Summary
Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A New York Times bestseller
A New York Times Pick for Books of the Century
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
This is Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore, now in a brand-new edition.
Arguably the greatest book from America’s most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner’s Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. And that fight for the right to die is what made him famous.
Mailer tells not only Gilmore’s story but those of the men and women caught in the web of his life and drawn into his procession toward the firing squad. All with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscape and stern theology of Gilmore’s Utah.
The Executioner’s Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest source of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement—impossible to put down, impossible to forget.
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
Category: | Fiction |
Runtime: | 42.63 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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