by NormanMailer (Author)
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years. But Gary Gilmore wanted to die, and his ensuing battle with the authorities for the right to do so made him into a world-wide celebrity - and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 1088
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Jul 1989
ISBN 10: 0099688603
ISBN 13: 9780099688600
Book Overview: If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1980 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1980.