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.
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.. a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave.
Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father\'s favorite and the shame of being Gary\'s brother, gracefully and painfully relates his story from inside the house where murder is born...
It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder.
In Shot in the Heart , he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a black sheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man.
Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother.
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.
It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.
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.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A murder tale from inside the house where murder is born.
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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
