The Executioner's Song - Couverture souple

Mailer, Norman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0375700811 ISBN 13 : 9780375700811

Editeur : Vintage Books, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Norman Mailer

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize

In what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows
the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's
prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then
killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on
dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on
keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.

Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story--and those of the men and women caught up in his
procession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a
restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah. The
Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources of
American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down, impossible to forget.

Quatrième de couverture :

With a new introduction by Andrew O'Hagan

'A great writer ... an utterly enthralling story'. Alan Sillitoe

In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men and shot them in cold blood. Sent to death row, he could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment - no-one had been executed in America for ten years. But Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for his right to do so turned his execution into the most gruesome media event of the decade.

'Such a wealth of imagery and adventure ... it is indeed that rare thing, a classic'. John le Carre

See also: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375700811
• ISBN 13: 9780375700811
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 1056