{"product_id":"executioners-song-norman-mailer","title":"Executioners Song (Norman Mailer)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne man's death wish became America's obsession.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976, Gary Gilmore murdered two men - then demanded to die for it. His trial and televised execution became a media spectacle, and ensured that his execution turned into the most gruesome media event of the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMailer's Pulitzer-winning epic combines journalistic detail with novelistic intensity.\u003ci\u003e The Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e is not just a chronicle of crime, but a haunting portrait of a country addicted to retribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman Mailer was born in New Jersey in January 1923 and after graduating from Harvard, served in the US army from 1944-1946. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Naked and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, was published to immediate critical acclaim in 1948 - and was hailed by Anthony Burgess as 'the best war novel to emerge from the United States'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe went on to publish both fiction and non-fiction, his books including \u003ci\u003eBarbary Shore \u003c\/i\u003e(1951), \u003ci\u003eAdvertisements for Myself \u003c\/i\u003e(1959), \u003ci\u003eThe Presidential Papers \u003c\/i\u003e(1963), \u003ci\u003eAn American Dream \u003c\/i\u003e(1964), \u003ci\u003eArmies of the Night \u003c\/i\u003e(1968), \u003ci\u003eAncient Evenings \u003c\/i\u003e(1983), and \u003ci\u003eTough Guys Don't Dance \u003c\/i\u003e(1983). \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1979, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 - an award which Mailer won twice during his writing career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorman Mailer died in November 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 1088 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65815890887005,"sku":"K009598154","price":19.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/executioners-song-norman-mailer","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}