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The Executioner's Song

A True Life Novel
Pages
1024
Published
1993
Language
English

Synopsis

Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" chronicles the life and death of Gary Gilmore, a man who shocked America by demanding execution after committing murder. This non-fiction novel details Gilmore's journey from his crimes to his final days, exploring his fight against the legal system that sought to keep him alive. It's a stark look at a man determined to control his own end.

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About the author

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the essay onto the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, fir...

Characters

Gary GilmoreProtagonist
BrendaSupporting
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