| The Executioner's Song Contributor(s): Mailer, Norman (Author), Eggers, Dave (Foreword by), Eggers, Dave (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1549198459 ISBN-13: 9781549198458 Publisher: Hachette Book Group OUR PRICE: $53.99 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Biographical |
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| Publisher Description: Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition.Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. And that fight for the right to die is what made him famous.Mailer tells not only Gilmore's story, but those of the men and women caught in the web of his life and drawn into his procession toward the firing squad. All with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscape and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah. THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest source of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement-impossible to put down, impossible to forget. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mailer, Norman: - Norman Mailer (1923-2007) grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song. He earned a National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. Eggers, Dave: -Dave Eggers won the 2009 Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation. He is the author of What Is the What, among other books. He is the editor for McSweeney's, an independent publishing house in San Francisco, and is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for youth with locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, Ann Arbor, and Seattle. With his high school students he edits The Best American Nonrequired Reading, a yearly anthology, and with his brother Toph he cowrites the Haggis-on-Whey series of semi-informative books, which includes Giraffes? Giraffes!, Animals of the Ocean (in Particular the Giant Squid), and Cold Fusion. |