- Case studies, Violence, Murder, Biography & Autobiography
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother.
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Grave, earnest, overwhelming and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Mikal Gilmore, Mikal Gilmore
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 519
- Publisher
- VIKING, Bungei Shunjū, Anchor Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Polish, English, Japanese, Korean
- ISBN
- 9788373112506
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First sentence
“ONE BY ONE I HAD WATCHED THEM ALL DIE.”
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