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The Executioner's Song

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In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.

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The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer

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1980
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Language
English
Publisher
Warner Books
Released
1980
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0446805580
ISBN13
9780446805582
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1979
Original title
The Executioner's Song
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In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime.