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Title details for The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer - Available

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer
Dave Eggers
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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.
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9781455510849
  • Release date: May 8, 2012

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781455510832
  • Release date: May 8, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781455510832
  • File size: 5660 KB
  • Release date: May 8, 2012

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature Mystery

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:960
Text Difficulty:5-6

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.
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Fiction Literature Mystery