The Executioner’s Song
Author: Norman Mailer
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, f….Read More
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