{"product_id":"the-executioners-song-modern-library","title":"The Executioner's Song (Modern Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize  In what is arguably his greatest book  Americas most heroically ambitious writer follows the short  blighted career of Gary Gilmore  an intractably violent product of Americas prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first  for robbing two men in 1976  then killing them in cold blood; and  second  after being tried and convicted  for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so  he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.  Norman Mailer tells Gilmores story--and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority  steely compassion  and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmores Utah. The Executioners Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down  impossible to forget.  From the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983569154101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679424717","price":60.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679424710.jpg?v=1770799287","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-executioners-song-modern-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}