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This novel is noteworthy for its portrayal of Gary Gilmore, a violent product of America's prisons who became known for two reasons: first for robbing and murdering two men in 1976, and second, after being tried and convicted, he insisting on dying for his crime. In order to do so, he had to fight a system that seemed ironically intent to keep him alive. The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel.

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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.

The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.

Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence-it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.

First edition identification

This book was first published by Little, Brown & Company in 1979. This book is in hardcover format with 1,056 pages.

Published in London by Hutchinson and Co in 1979, this edition has original blue cloth, titles to the spine in silver and copper, with yellow endpapers.

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Title The Executioner's Song
Author Norman Mailer; Foreword by Dave Eggers
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 1136
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
Publication date 2012-05-08
Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780446584388 / 044658438X
Weight 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg)
Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 2.1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 5.33 cm)
Reading level 960
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Death row inmates
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011945700
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of the Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son, The Castle and the Forest and On God. He died in 2007.

Dave Eggers is the award-winning and bestselling author of many books, including the National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King, as well as books for younger readers including What Can a Citizen Do?, Her Right Foot, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, and The Lifters. He is the founder of the independent publishing company McSweeney's and the nonprofit organization ScholarMatch, in addition to cofounding The International Congress of Youth Voices and 826 Valencia, which has inspired similar organizations worldwide. Eggers lives in Northern California.

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