The executioner's song

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Title:

The executioner's song

Author:

Mailer, Norman.

Personal Author:

Mailer, Norman.

Publication Information:

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

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 -- The gas station and the motel -- The shadows of the dream -- The trial of Gary M. Gilmore -- Death row -- Book two : Eastern voices -- In the reign of good King Boaz -- Exclusive rights -- The hunger strike -- The holiday season -- Pressures -- Into the light -- The fading of the heart.

Personal Subject:

Gilmore, Gary-Fiction.

Gilmore, Gary. (OCoLC)fst00040438

Subject Term:

Death row inmates -- Fiction.

Fiction.

Literary.

FICTION -- Biographical.

Death row inmates. (OCoLC)fst00888720

Geographic Term:

Utah -- Fiction.

Utah. (OCoLC)fst01204563