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The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

Paperback | Pages: 1056 pages

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Original Title:	The Executioner's Song
ISBN:	0375700811 (ISBN13: 9780375700811)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gary Gilmore
Setting:	Utah(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1980), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1979), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1980) & (Paperback) (1981)

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In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's 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 Gilmore's 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 Gilmore's Utah. The Executioner's Song is 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.

Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize

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Title	:	The Executioner's Song
Author	:	Norman Mailer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1056 pages
Published	:	April 28th 1998 by Vintage Books USA (first published October 30th 1979)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. Mystery

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Now, the doctor was beside him, pinning a white circle on [Gary] Gilmores black shirt, and the doctor stepped back. Father Meersman traced the big sign of the cross, the last act he had to perform. Then, he, too, stepped over the line, and turned around, and looked back at the hooded figure in the chair. The phone began to ring- Norman Mailer, The Executioners Song This book is something. Yup, it surely is. The Executioner's Song is one of those oxymoronically-named non-fiction novels. In a

I won't rate this, because I only got about a hundred pages. I couldn't make it any further, though. I disliked the writing style intensely.

I had this book on my list as "must-read classic". I don't know where that came from. It was one of the most boring books I ever read. I cannot believe I ploughed through > 1,000 pages of excrutiatingly detailed narration of the true crimes, trial and execution of Gary Gilmore. I didn't give anything away; it's on the book jacket. After reading how each person dressed, how they were raised (even the minor players whose names you can forget right afterwards!), their exact words in every exact

I can't resist the deliciously apparent metaphor provided by the circumstance that it took me pretty much exactly from Christmas to Easter to read this epic, 1100 page book about the life and death of Gary Gilmore. 1100 pages! I've only read one longer book in my life, The Glass Bead Game, which was so good it took less than a week to read. Obviously, this book wasn't in the same league.But it was much better than expected, since I'd otherwise been nursing a nascent hatred of Mailer initially

I never got round to reviewing this mighty five star masterpiece before because I thought it spoke for itself. But I just reread one long chapter and was again knocked out, its just beautiful stuff. Not having read anything else by stormin Norman except his dubious, lubricious biography of Marilyn Monroe (I liked it but the pictures were better, I mean to say, he had about 8 wives himself and he was moaning out loud that hed never married Marilyn, really it was a bit gross) I had thought he was

As indicated by the title, The Executioner's Song is primarily about capital punishment. It raises the serious and thoughtful question as to whether or not society should be killing those it deems to be undesirable. After all, we enter into a covenant with society and agree to give up certain freedoms in exchange for certain protections, and the protection of life could be considered one of societys fundamental duties. And yet, society regularly takes the life of some of those that break the

In the Executioners Song, Norman Mailer chronicles the life of Gary Gilmore; a man responsible for murdering two people in Utah in 1976. The book takes a particular interest in the events surrounding the murders, trial and execution of Gary Gilmore and follows the lives of people who have come into contact with him.The first part of the book leading to the murders is engaging; whereas the second part is dull; as it provides lengthy accounts of secondary characters that are irrelevant to the