Shot in the Heart: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Paperback - 1995
by Mikal Gilmore
The brother of Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family--a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. "Impossible to put down".--John Schulian, L.A. Times. Photos.
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Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a blacksheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates a murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born... a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave." Shot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin. Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, "Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.
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- Title Shot in the Heart: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
- Author Mikal Gilmore
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-08-01
- ISBN 9780385478007 / 0385478003
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.3 x 1.13 in (20.37 x 13.46 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Murder - United States, Violence - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93045627
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times, 09/24/1995, Page 40
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1995, Page 88
- Publishers Weekly, 07/31/1995, Page 0
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