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.
關於作者：
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and
grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the
co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than
thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the
Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer
Prize; The Executioner''s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer
Prize; Harlot''s Ghost; Oswald''s Tale; The Gospel According to the
Son, The Castle and the Forest and On God. He died in 2007.
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