by Norman Mailer · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433914392
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«La canción del verdugo» is the novel by Norman Mailer, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
Based on real events, it follows Gary Gilmore: after leaving prison he commits two murders and, sentenced to death, rejects appeals and ends up before the firing squad. Mailer reconstructs his final months with hundreds of interviews, as well as the bond with his lover Nicole, two outcasts in whose relationship an unexpected purity emerges.
Work awarded the Pulitzer Prize. It belongs to Anagrama's Compactos collection (number 109); its original title is «The Executioner's Song».
For readers of contemporary fiction and true crime chronicles, with an interest in the figure of Norman Mailer.
Nachem Malech Mailer, known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
