Executioners Song

English

Series: Vintage International Ser.

ISBN: 0375700811

EAN: 9780375700811

Category: Fiction / Literary/Fiction / General/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 04/01/1998

Synopsis: Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize In what is arguably his greatest book, Americas most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of Americas prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on keeping 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 his procession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmores Utah.The Executioners Songis a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down, impossible to forget.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null 

Executioners Song

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.77 inches

Width: 5.22 inches

Length: 7.98 inches

Weight: 30.51 oz

Pages: 1072