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The Executioner's Song
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The Executioner's Song (1979) (edit title/settings)

by Norman Mailer (Author) (edit contributors)

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Follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime.... read more

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  • “Vern, said Brenda, was strong enough to be gentle all the time.”
    Brenda Nicol
  • “Once in a while, Grace had a student she didn't need to teach at, as she would put it, but could teach to.”
    Grace McGinnis
  • “Somebody asked her once if it had been difficult to learn to live in that trailer, and she said no, not difficult at all. That was because she had never lived there, but died the day she moved in.”
    Bessie Gilmore

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Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

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Book 1: Western Voices
1. Gary
2. Nicole
3. Gary and Nicole
4. The Gas Station and the Motel
5. The Shadows of the Dream
6. The Trial of Gary M. Gilmore
7. Death Row

Book 2: Eastern Voices
1. In the Reign of Good King Boaz
2. Exclusive Rights
3. The Hunger Strike
4. The Holiday Season
5. Pressures
6. Into the Light
7. The Fading of the Heart

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Big Fat Books. (community list)
This book is in TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books. (authoritative list)
This is book 1980 of 83 in Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Stories of John Cheever, and followed by A Confederacy of Dunces.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Norman Mailer (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1979
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Page Count: 1056

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  • Library of Congress: PZ3.M2815 Ex
  • Dewey: 813.54

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