EPISODE · May 15, 2018 · 42H 43M
Listen to The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Executioner's Song Author: Norman Mailer Narrator: Maxwell Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 42 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's 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 Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence–it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/333018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Executioner's Song Author: Norman Mailer Narrator: Maxwell Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 42 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's 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 Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence–it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.
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