The Executioner's Song (Modern Library)

by Norman Mailer

Dave Eggers (Foreword)

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN

In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years.

But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.

  • ISBN10 044658438X
  • ISBN13 9780446584388
  • Publish Date 8 May 2012 (first published 30 October 1979)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Time Warner Trade Publishing
  • Imprint Warner Books Inc
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 1136
  • Language English