{"product_id":"shot-in-the-heart-paperback","title":"Shot in the Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMikal Gilmore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A murder tale \"from inside the house where murder is born.\" Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, \u003ci\u003eShot in the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Song\u003c\/i\u003e, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In \u003ci\u003eShot in the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMikal, 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... a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave.\" \u003ci\u003eShot in the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMIKAL GILMORE\u003c\/b\u003e is an American writer and music journalist. Born in Portland, Oregon to Frank and Bessie Gilmore, he is the younger brother of famed murderer Gary Gilmore who was the first person executed by firing squad after the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. Mikal was the music editor for the \u003ci\u003eL.A. Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Herald Examiner, \u003c\/i\u003eand for twenty years has worked on the staff of \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, where he has profiled many national figures\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives and works in Los Angeles, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 8.02 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1994)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178323984633,"sku":"9780385478007","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Z6wBWch2vl9780385478007.webp?v=1767722989","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/shot-in-the-heart-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}