![]() ![]() Gary Gilmore had a highly developed kind of con style that caught the national imagination. Gary Gilmore had been in and out of prison, mostly in, for 22 of his 36 years. It seemed one of those lives in which the narrative would yield no further meaning. ![]() “This ‘Gary Gilmore book’ of Mailer’s was understood in a general way to be an account of or a contemplation on the death or the life or the last nine months in the life of Gary Mark Gilmore, those nine months representing the period between the day in April of 1976 when he was released from the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, and the morning in January of 1977 on which he was executed by having four shots fired into his heart at the Utah State Prison at Point of the Mountain, Utah. ![]()
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