The Executioner's Song
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5.0 • 10 Ratings
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- £8.49
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Incredible writing
The subject matter may be morose, but that takes nothing away from the incredible writing.
A long read, but worth every penny and page.
The Executioner's Song
Not much to say that hasn't been said. A phenomenally perceptive and honest account of American reality at its worst in so many ways, with interpolations of startling good, this book is a harrowing, challenging read. It also may be the only significant work of literature to offer insight into the Mormon church and its beliefs and worldly influence in Utah. What most critics seem either to forget or ignore, is that this is only a novel out of courtesy , and that in fact it is superb journalism.