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The Executioner's Song (1982): TV Series vs Book
TV series · 1982 · Directed by Lawrence Schiller · Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette
About the tv series
A true story of a killer and the media that gathered around him.
How close is it to the book?
Close to the bookThe television film condenses the huge nonfiction novel into a single story.
Read or watch first?
The book is monumental and shows the lives of many people around the crime.
What the book gives you
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
A massive, gripping portrait of a man and the people around him, told with the pace of a novel.
Who will like it: Readers who like true crime written on an epic scale.