| Description |
xvi, 1109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Book one : Western voices -- pt. 1. Gary -- pt. 2. Nicole -- pt. 3. Gary and Nicole -- pt. 4. The gas station and the motel -- pt. 5. The shadows of the dream -- pt. 6. The trial of Gary M. Gilmore -- pt. 7. Death row -- Book two : Eastern voices -- pt. 1. In the reign of good King Boaz -- pt. 2. Exclusive rights -- pt. 3. The hunger strike -- pt. 4. The holiday season -- pt. 5. Pressures -- pt. 6. Into the light -- pt. 7. The fading of the heart. |
| Summary |
In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime. |
| Subject |
Gilmore, Gary -- Fiction.
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Death row inmates -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Utah -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Biographical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780446584388 (pbk.) |
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044658438X (pbk.) |
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