Oswaldworld

Andrew O’Hagan

  • Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer
    Little, Brown, 791 pp, £25.00, September 1995, ISBN 0 316 87620 8

When Gary Gilmore faced his executioners one cold morning in 1977, there was a serious, anxious, bearded reporter-type standing only a few feet away. Before the hood was placed over Gilmore’s head, the man walked over to the chair, and took both of the killer’s hands into his own. ‘I don’t know why I’m here,’ he said. Gilmore looked up, and replied sweetly: ‘You’re going to help me escape.’

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