The Executioner's Song
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A monumental work of literary nonfiction, The Executioner's Song chronicles the life and death of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who made international headlines in 1977 when he demanded that the state of Utah carry out his death sentence — the first execution in the United States in over a decade. Norman Mailer constructs a sweeping, novelistic narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, presenting the grim realities of poverty, violence, and broken lives in the American West with unflinching precision. The prose shifts between the perspectives of Gilmore, his tragic lover Nicole Baker, and the vast cast of lawyers, journalists, and family members caught in the spectacle of his death, illustrating how a single act of violence can ripple outward to consume entire communities. Mailer's tone is deliberately restrained and journalistic, allowing the raw facts to carry their own devastating weight rather than editorializing, a technique that earned the work the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980. At over a thousand pages, it stands as one of the most ambitious and haunting examinations of crime, punishment, and the American soul ever committed to the page.
Author: Norman Mailer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Hutchinson
Genre: True crime
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A monumental work of literary nonfiction, The Executioner's Song chronicles the life and death of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who made international headlines in 1977 when he demanded that the state of Utah carry out his death sentence — the first execution in the United States in over a decade. Norman Mailer constructs a sweeping, novelistic narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, presenting the grim realities of poverty, violence, and broken lives in the American West with unflinching precision. The prose shifts between the perspectives of Gilmore, his tragic lover Nicole Baker, and the vast cast of lawyers, journalists, and family members caught in the spectacle of his death, illustrating how a single act of violence can ripple outward to consume entire communities. Mailer's tone is deliberately restrained and journalistic, allowing the raw facts to carry their own devastating weight rather than editorializing, a technique that earned the work the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980. At over a thousand pages, it stands as one of the most ambitious and haunting examinations of crime, punishment, and the American soul ever committed to the page.