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  1. THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG | Kirkus Reviews. by Norman Mailer ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 15, 1979. bookshelf. shop now. The life story of double-murderer Gary Gilmore and a new, impressive book for Mailer, a thousand-page leviathan achieved at an awesome price. Goodbye, self-advertising, two-fisted clown-drunk Mailer.

  2. "The Executioner's Song" is structured in two long symphonic movements: "Western Voices," or Book One, voices which are most strongly voices of women, and "Eastern Voices," Book Two, voices which are not literally those of Easterners but are largely those of men--the voices of the lawyers, the prosecutors, the reporters, the people who move in ...

  3. Oct 30, 1979 · Norman Mailer. 4.06. 21,765 ratings1,584 reviews. In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and ...

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  5. Reviews 74% 500+ Ratings Audience Score In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones), an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving...

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    • Lawrence Schiller
    • TV-PG
    • Tommy Lee Jones
  6. The Executioner's Song won the Playboy writing award in 1979 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980, and was a finalist for the 1980 National Book Award. [6] Christopher Ricks described the novel in the London Review of Books as "a work of genius in its range, depth, and restraint". [7]

    • Norman Mailer
    • United States
    • 1979
    • 1979
  7. Nov 28, 1982 · Rosanna Arquette. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 3.1K users. 27 User reviews. 8 Critic reviews. Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 2 wins & 3 nominations total. Videos 1.

  8. In its best moments, The Executioner's Song touches upon timeless truths. Christine Lahti and Eli Wallach give very sympathetic performances as Gilmore's cousin and uncle, respectively. And Rosanna Arquette is exquisite as his girlfriend.

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