The Executioner's Song

Title: The Executioner's Song
Author: Dave Mailer, Norman; Eggers
Fiction: 1693506
ISBN: 9780446584388
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 1136
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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.