The executioner's song
Title:
The executioner's song
Author:
Mailer, Norman.
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Edition:
First Grand Central Publishing trade edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2012.
©1979
Physical Description:
xvi, 1109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.
Language:
English
Contents:
Book one : Western voices -- Gary -- Nicole -- Gary and Nicole -- Gas station and the motel -- Shadows of the dream -- Trial of Gary M. Gilmore -- Death row -- Book two : Eastern voices -- In the reign of good King Boaz -- Exclusive rights -- Hunger strike -- Holiday season -- Pressures -- Into the light -- Fading of the heart.
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ISBN:
9780446584388
Format :
Book
