by Norman Mailer · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375700811
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«The Executioner's Song» is Norman Mailer's nonfiction novel, published by Vintage in paperback (1072 pages, in English).
Norman Mailer reconstructs the real case of Gary Gilmore, who in 1976 killed two men in Utah and, sentenced to death, fought for the sentence to be carried out. He also portrays those who accompanied Gilmore to the firing squad, with a sober look at the landscape and mentality of the region.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980 and finalist for the National Book Award. This edition is the first Vintage International; the work was originally published in 1979.
For readers of true crime and narrative nonfiction, within the tradition of New Journalism.
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.
