The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

1024 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction crime true crime challenging reflective slow-paced

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In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---a...

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Moods

dark 75%
reflective 66%
challenging 58%
emotional 50%
informative 50%
sad 50%
tense 8%

Pace

slow 64%
medium 35%

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