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Title	:	The Executioner's Song
Author	:	Norman Mailer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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 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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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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Capote was so right. This isn't writing; it's typing. If you want to know about this case, I suggest SHOT IN THE HEART by Mikal Gilmore.

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 promise to write something longer, but I am truly dismayed by this book for many reasons.1/ the Mountain West / redneck behavior of Gary, Nicole and all the other Mormon losers in the book as well as the cynical (with crocodile teary-eyes) behavior of Schiller and the press made me physically ill - and I don't feel it truly bothered Mailer at all. I hated every single character excepting Mikal. All the rest were just reprehensible morons. The whole cast is straight out of an Ayn Rand orgy of

Full disclosure: I am not now nor have I ever been a proponent of the death penalty. There are some very good reasons it should be abolished.. least of which is that there is no evidence it serves as a deterrent to anyone other than the person being executed (for obvious reasons). This is the story of killer Gary Gilmore. In the summer of 1976, he robbed two men and then shot them both execution style. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in the state of Utah. What made this case so

Top Five Executioner's Songs5. Bodies, Drowning Pool4. Heads Will Roll, Yeah Yeah Yeahs3. How I Could Just Kill a Man, Cypress Hill2. Party Rock, LMFAO1. The Lord High Executioner's Song, The Mikado, Gilbert & SullivanProblem is that this is not just 1100 pages of a dude in a black hood doing the watusi to LMFAO. Look, I get what Mailer's doing here. He's using the case of murderer Gary Gilmore to raise big questions about good and evil and free will, and it's a smart thing to do and he does

Holy shit. I picked this off the shelf after a trip to SLC. Knew Utah was related. Didn't know I'd devour 1000 pages so fast. I think this should be required reading in the US of A. As a lover of Vollmann, and unfamiliar with any of Mailer's novels or longer works, I now compare his non-judgemental style and pathos to WTV, only he writes in a manner any one who made it to HS could understand. I dunno. Gonna be foisting this fucker on many people in the near future. I seriously got a near-wrist