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The case was never solved, and this in a certain way marks the main characters of the novel. This is what happens to the two police officers in charge of the investigation: Lee Blanchart and Bucky Bleichert. Both end up becoming obsessed with the case to levels that surpass any reasonable professional criteria.
There are books that collect cases in which the murderer is captured, but that does not mean that the ending can be described as happy.
On January 17, 1977, Gary Gilmore was shot Fax Lists in a Utah prison for the murder of two people. This was the first execution that occurred in the United States after the country's Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. This case shocked American public opinion.
Norman Mailer (New Jersey, 1923-New York, 2007) was based on this case to write The Executioner's Song , an extraordinary story in which this versatile journalist and writer includes some of the best pages he has written in his long career.
To compose his novel, Mailer uses hundreds of interviews with eyewitnesses. The book focuses on the nine months that go from the moment Gilmore is released from prison on parole, the two murders he committed shortly after being on the street, and ends when the protagonist of the story is before the platoon. of execution.
This novel, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, has among its main virtues Mailer's skill in introducing us to a character like Gilmore, who had spent 18 of his 35 years of life in reform schools and prisons and who, once Sentenced to death, he refuses to appeal the sentence, tired of spending his life behind bars.
There are books that collect cases in which the murderer is captured, but that does not mean that the ending can be described as happy.
On January 17, 1977, Gary Gilmore was shot Fax Lists in a Utah prison for the murder of two people. This was the first execution that occurred in the United States after the country's Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. This case shocked American public opinion.
Norman Mailer (New Jersey, 1923-New York, 2007) was based on this case to write The Executioner's Song , an extraordinary story in which this versatile journalist and writer includes some of the best pages he has written in his long career.
To compose his novel, Mailer uses hundreds of interviews with eyewitnesses. The book focuses on the nine months that go from the moment Gilmore is released from prison on parole, the two murders he committed shortly after being on the street, and ends when the protagonist of the story is before the platoon. of execution.
This novel, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, has among its main virtues Mailer's skill in introducing us to a character like Gilmore, who had spent 18 of his 35 years of life in reform schools and prisons and who, once Sentenced to death, he refuses to appeal the sentence, tired of spending his life behind bars.