The Executioner's Song - Couverture souple

Mailer, Norman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0446805580 ISBN 13 : 9780446805582

Editeur : Warner Books, 1980

Synopsis

Book by Mailer Norman

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Norman Mailer was born in New Jersey in January 1923 and after graduating from Harvard, served in the US army from 1944-1946. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was published to immediate critical acclaim in 1948 - and was hailed by Anthony Burgess as 'the best war novel to emerge from the United States'.

He went on to publish both fiction and non-fiction, his books including Barbary Shore (1951), Advertisements for Myself (1959), The Presidential Papers (1963), An American Dream (1964), Armies of the Night (1968), Ancient Evenings (1983), and Tough Guys Don't Dance (1983). The Executioner's Song, first published in 1979, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 - an award which Mailer won twice during his writing career.

Norman Mailer died in November 2007.

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: Warner Books
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0446805580
• ISBN 13: 9780446805582
• Reliure: Poche
• Numéro d'édition: 1