Shot in the Heart: One Family's History in Murder by Gilmore, Mikal - 05/25/1995

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Penguin Books Ltd, 1995. Paperback. 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… Read More

Good. 0x0x0. Book is in good condition with typical reading wear to the cover and spine. Slight discolouration to the pages. Fingermarks present.