The Executioner's Song: A cinematic true-crime thriller about violence and fame from Pulitzer prize-winning author - Softcover

Mailer, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099688603 ISBN 13: 9780099688600

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 1989

Synopsis

One man’s death wish became America’s obsession.

In 1976, Gary Gilmore murdered two men - then demanded to die for it. His trial and televised execution became a media spectacle, and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.

Mailer’s Pulitzer-winning epic combines journalistic detail with novelistic intensity. The Executioner’s Song is not just a chronicle of crime, but a haunting portrait of a country addicted to retribution.

About this title

About the Author

Norman Mailer was born in New Jersey in January 1923 and after graduating from Harvard, served in the US army from 1944-1946. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was published to immediate critical acclaim in 1948 - and was hailed by Anthony Burgess as 'the best war novel to emerge from the United States'.

He went on to publish both fiction and non-fiction, his books including Barbary Shore (1951), Advertisements for Myself (1959), The Presidential Papers (1963), An American Dream (1964), Armies of the Night (1968), Ancient Evenings (1983), and Tough Guys Don't Dance (1983). The Executioner's Song, first published in 1979, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 - an award which Mailer won twice during his writing career.

Norman Mailer died in November 2007.

From the Back Cover

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099688603
• ISBN 13: 9780099688600
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1088