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The Executioner's Song Study Guide

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by Norman Mailer
About 115 pages (34,368 words)
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The Executioner's Song reads like a latter day An American Tragedy (1926) because it emulates the size of Theodore Dreiser's huge, compelling epic.

Like An American Tragedy, The Executioner's Song has a documentary doggedness. It refuses to explain in definitive terms its main character. It follows Dreiser in projecting an ambitious appetite for encompassing the whole of American experience, for painstakingly recording the myriad details of individual lives, and — most importantly — for arousing wonder at the ambiguities of human identity. Dreiser's attention to the Western and Eastern.....

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