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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.
The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.
Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence–it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.
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“Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work of journalistic fiction, centered on convicted killer Gary Gilmore, boasts a terrific narration by Maxwell Hamilton…Hamilton is spot-on as he delivers Mailer’s well-drawn sketches of the people in Gilmore’s life—his family and friends—and their hardscrabble existence, capturing Utah’s rigid moral code and scofflaw Gilmore’s low regard for its restrictions. A remarkable tale and narration. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“No one but Mailer could have dared this book…The very subject of The Executioner’s Song is that vast emptiness at the center of the Western experience…a dread so close to zero that human voices fade out…This is an absolutely astonishing book.”
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“A harrowing, absolutely eyes-on account…elevated by Mailer’s genius into art.”
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“Not since The Grapes of Wrath has there been an American book that so discovered the voices in our culture.”
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“Literature of the highest order…It lives in the mind long after the last page has been read.”
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“The Executioner’s Song takes you inside Gilmore’s head and the harrowing fight he launched against those who tried to save him against his will.”
— New York Times
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A New York Times bestseller
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Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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A New York Times Pick for Books of the Century
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
The Executioner's Song Listener Reviews
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Warren Hegg, 10/2/2018
About Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) wrote more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost; Oswald’s Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest. He was one of the cofounders of the Village Voice.
About Maxwell Hamilton
Maxwell Hamilton is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning narrator.