BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Hoover Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Hoover Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cfc47969-b96e-4faa-a7fa-95d58a6df737 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261005T064145Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T200000 SUMMARY:True Crime Book Club LOCATION:Hoover Public Library\nHoover Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hoover Public Library;X-AP PLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Hoover Public Library:geo:33.3879503,-86.8046606 GEO:33.3879503;-86.8046606 DESCRIPTION:Enjoy playing armchair detective? Fascinated by cold cases? This book club is for you!.\nhttps://hoover.libnet.info/event/10957607 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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Arguably th e greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer\, The Executioner's Song follows the short\, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood. After being tried and convicted\, he immediately insisted on being executed for his crime. To do so\, he fought a system that seemed intent o n keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death. And that fig ht for the right to die is what made him famous.

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Mailer tells not only Gilmore's story\, but those of the men and women caught in the web of his life and drawn into his procession toward the firing squad. All with implacable authority\, steely compassion\, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscape and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah. The Execution er's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest source of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement-i mpossible to put down\, impossible to forget.

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