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            <span class="home-history__title"><em>The Executioner&#39;s Song</em></span>
            <span class="home-history__year">(1979)</span>
            <span>spent 25 weeks on <em>The New York Times</em> best-seller list and reached no. 3.</span> <span>Its long run matched critical acclaim and preceded Mailer's 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.</span>
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