The Executioner's Song
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Jul '89
Should be back in stock very soon
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men.
One man’s death wish became America’s obsession.
In 1976, Gary Gilmore murdered two men - then demanded to die for it. His trial and televised execution became a media spectacle, and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.
Mailer’s Pulitzer-winning epic combines journalistic detail with novelistic intensity. The Executioner’s Song is not just a chronicle of crime, but a haunting portrait of a country addicted to retribution.
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 of revolutionary fanaticism and the indecipherable humanity that flickers within it...by turns evocative, wise and crisscrossed by fury * New York Times Book Review *
A great writer: in the utterly enthralling story of Gary Gilmore's life and crimes Norman Mailer takes one as deeply into the criminal mind as it is possible to get * Alan Sillitoe *
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1980
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1980
ISBN: 9780099688600
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 49mm
Weight: 747g
1088 pages