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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)

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

Paperback | Pages: 1056 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 17880 Users | 1190 Reviews

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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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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

Gary Gilmore's died in photographs are black and white. They are all mugshots. Gray faced still if they were to be in color mug shots of crimes of who knows what. Living or dead. Gray smirks and flat lines and nothing reaching the eyes because they are always somewhere else. Some live to get to heaven and another hopes it won't be as bad the next go around... Crimes to be and crimes of the soul. The photograph captions might say, "We always knew he'd be up to no good." The inside caption says,

What a ******* book! Mind numbingly good. An intellectual grand slam!

This was a thorough account of events surrounding the execution of murderer Gary Gilmore. The event made national news at the time because Gilmore did not want to appeal, and wanted the sentence carried out. There were legal battles on each side; those attempting to stay the execution because of disagreements with Capital Punishment and those who felt he had the right to have his execution carried out. This novel was a powerful piece of history on its own, but it carried a personal touch for me

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

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I have heard it said that Norman Mailer is inconsistent within novels, whereas ordinary writers are inconsistent novel to novel. I have always found this true when reading his books. He was a prolific all-American novelist, who repeatedly tried to write The Great American novel, and experimented with form and content. His first so-called great work was The Naked and the Dead, still infamous, which I found by turns inspired and unconscionable. Good luck trying to fix Mailer's moral standpoint in