
The Executioner's Song
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Narrated by:
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Maxwell Hamilton
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By:
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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition.
Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so, he fought a system that seemed intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. And that fight for the right to die is what made him famous.
Mailer tells not only Gilmore's story, but those of the men and women caught in the web of his life and drawn into his procession toward the firing squad. All with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscape and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah.
The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest source of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement - impossible to put down, impossible to forget.
©1980 Norman Mailer (P)2018 Hachette AudioListeners also enjoyed...




















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Still 5 Stars
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And I'm only halfway through. But it's too good a story to pass up. And I have a long drive ahead of me.
uneducated narrator; shoddy editing.
Maxwell Hamilton mispronounces multiple words
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Multiple stories of people's dynamic views.
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Great book, awful reading
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Reader is great
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Mailer's Masterpiece
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Worthy of The Pulizter Prize
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When a person is hired to read an audiobook one of the first things they should do is learn to pronounce words and names in the book. Mr. Hamilton mispronounced both the name of the angel Moroni -- a very important name in the Mormon faith, and the name of Geraldo Rivera! Over and over and over again. Ugh!
Mispronounced names drive me a bit crazy.
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Don't Shoot the Narrator!
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Awful Narration
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