Executioner's Song
«A deeply unsettling account of a particular ordeal that suggests larger questions: the moralities of power's ends and means, the character of revolutionary fanaticism and the indecipherable humanity that flickers within it...by turns evocative, wise and crisscrossed by fury»
New York Times Book Review
If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 1088
- ISBN
- 9780099688600
- Utgivelsesår
- 1989
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1980 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1980.
Anmeldelser
«A deeply unsettling account of a particular ordeal that suggests larger questions: the moralities of power's ends and means, the character of revolutionary fanaticism and the indecipherable humanity that flickers within it...by turns evocative, wise and crisscrossed by fury»
New York Times Book Review
«A great writer: in the utterly enthralling story of Gary Gilmore's life and crimes Norman Mailer takes one as deeply into the criminal mind as it is possible to get»
Alan Sillitoe
«This is by far the best thing Mailer ever wrote»
New Statesman, *Books of the Year*
«His greatest work was his 1979 epic The Executioner's Song… a masterpiece of reportage, fiction and stylistic writing»
Observer