The Executioner's Song
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the desolate flatlands of the American West, a killer walks free — and The Executioner's Song chronicles the life, crimes, and death of Gary Gilmore, the first man executed in the United States after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Norman Mailer reconstructs Gilmore's troubled existence with forensic precision, drawing on thousands of pages of interviews, court transcripts, and personal letters to present a portrait of a man shaped by poverty, violence, and a broken system — and the media circus that consumed his final months. Mailer's monumental true life novel argues that the American Dream and the American nightmare are not opposites but mirror images, using Gilmore's story to illuminate the fractured soul of a nation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980, the work stands as one of the great achievements in narrative non-fiction — a book that defies easy categorisation and leaves the reader asking uncomfortable questions about justice, free will, and what it means to choose one's own end.
Author: Norman Mailer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Hutchinson
Genre: True crime
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the desolate flatlands of the American West, a killer walks free — and The Executioner's Song chronicles the life, crimes, and death of Gary Gilmore, the first man executed in the United States after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Norman Mailer reconstructs Gilmore's troubled existence with forensic precision, drawing on thousands of pages of interviews, court transcripts, and personal letters to present a portrait of a man shaped by poverty, violence, and a broken system — and the media circus that consumed his final months. Mailer's monumental true life novel argues that the American Dream and the American nightmare are not opposites but mirror images, using Gilmore's story to illuminate the fractured soul of a nation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980, the work stands as one of the great achievements in narrative non-fiction — a book that defies easy categorisation and leaves the reader asking uncomfortable questions about justice, free will, and what it means to choose one's own end.