The Executioner's Song

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.

The Executioners 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 Gilmores story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioners Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violenceit is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.