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      The Executioner's Song

      by Norman Mailer
      Published
      Jan 1979
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      1024
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      In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.

      The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death. 

      Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence–it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.

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      Jun 1980 Warner ISBN 0446363537
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