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The most powerful and haunting book of our time. Destined to be an American classic, this book tells more than the story of a troubled American family--it tells the story of a troubled America.
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"I have a story to tell. It is a story of murder told from inside the house where murder is born. It is the house where I grew up, a house that, in some ways, I have never been able to leave."
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Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person to be executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a case which was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. This brave and eloquent book is the story that only Mikal Gilmore knows: the violence in multiple generations of his family, what the Gilmore house was like as he was growing up, his relationship with his brother, and his experience of the dramatic events surrounding Gary Gilmore's determination to be executed as planned, without appeal. Shot in the Heart pulls off the rare feat of conveying intense emotion without sentimentality or self-pity. The author's struggle is to set himself apart from the lurid true-crime fraternity of his father and brothers yet remain able to understand why he feels both guilty and lonely over his exclusion from his family's violent history. --Fiona Webster
erful and haunting book of our time. Destined to be an American classic, this book tells more than the story of a troubled American family--it tells the story of a troubled America.
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- PublisherDD 1994
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 014016670X
- ISBN 13 9780140166705
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages592
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Ex ecutioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing s quad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the H eart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: the ir mother, a blacksheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their fathe r, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerat ional history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mika l, 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 America n family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the child ren of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin. Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, "Sho t 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 unchange d. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000062729
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