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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316544175
ISBN-139780316544177
eBay Product ID (ePID)1335677
Product Key Features
Publication Year1979
Book TitleExecutioner's Song
TopicLiterary
Number of Pages1056 P. ; Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorNorman Mailer
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
LCCN79-017193
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisThe Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the crimes and punishment of a 20th-century murderer and thief, is what the author calls a "true-life novel." It is a horrifying, sad, scrupulously detailed look at the events leading up to the moment Gary Gilmore was killed by a firing squad in Utah State Prison on January 17, 1977. Based on interviews, records of court proceedings, newspaper stories, and various other documents, it covers the nine months between Gilmore's parole from prison, his final crime, and his execution. The blurring of the distinction between fiction and nonfiction was one of the central developments of postwar American literature, and Mailer's imaginative use of the facts is an extension of his earlier forays into the "new journalism." He re-creates Gillmore's tormented psyche, recounts his crimes, takes in the story of Mormonism and the history of Utah, introduces Uncle Vern, Aunt Ida, victims, cops, cons, guards, lovers, and lawyers. The "Western Voices" of small-town America and the "Eastern Voices" of the journalists and show-biz types who descend on the Gilmore story are fused into a remarkable chorus, amplifying the presence of Gilmore himself, a smart, funny, doomed man - one of the most complex characters in modern letters.
LC Classification NumberPS3525.A4152 E84
