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Utah’s capital city is among the locations mentioned in “The Executioner’s Song,” Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning true-crime novel about the execution of the murderer Gary Gilmore. Which city is Utah's capital?
- A Salt Lake City
- B Orem
- C Park City
- D Ogden
That's Correct!
It's Wrong!
From Joan Didion’s 1979 review in the Book Review:
Brenda Nicol, a forthright woman in her thirties who “hadn't gone into marriage four times without knowing she was pretty attractive on the hoof,” has gotten a call from the penitentiary at Marion saying that her cousin Gary Gilmore was coming home — by way of St. Louis, Denver, Salt Lake — to Provo.
PS. Didion gave the book a rave:
When I read this, I remembered that the tracks made by the wagon wheels are still visible from the air over Utah, like the footprints made on the moon. This is an absolutely astonishing book.
