Ebook: Summary and Analysis of The Executioner's Song: Based on the Book by Norman Mailer

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About The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer:

Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize–winning The Executioner's Song tells the story of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer whose death penalty sentence became a lightning rod for public debate over capital punishment.

Though it reads like a novel, the book is a magnum opus of creative nonfiction, drawing from reams of documents and countless hours of interviews to paint a nuanced picture of Gilmore and the events that led up to his 1979 execution by firing squad.

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