Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.
Shot in the Heart
by Gilmore, Mikal
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385478003
- ISBN 13
- 9780385478007
- Seller
-
Kennebunkport, Maine, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Anchor, 1995-07-31. paperback. Good. 5x1x8. Light reading and shelf wear with spine crease.. Unconditional money back guarantee.
Synopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- TangledWebMysteries
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122483
- Title
- Shot in the Heart
- Author
- Gilmore, Mikal
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385478003
- ISBN 13
- 9780385478007
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1995-07-31
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 13 oz
Terms of Sale
TangledWebMysteries
All returns accepted for any reason, refunds given promptly after return of book.
About the Seller
TangledWebMysteries
Biblio member since 2004
Kennebunkport, Maine
About TangledWebMysteries
Tangled Web Mysteries and Oddities was started in 1995 as a bookstore in downtown historic Salem, MA, and is now based in beautiful Kennebunkport, Maine. We are a Mother and Daughter run business, and have been selling online since 2001. We specialize in hard to find mystery series, children's books, and other collectible and hard to find titles.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
This Book’s Categories
Collect modern first editions
Biblio is showcasing the top book published every year starting in 1919. See if your favorite modern first edition made the list! Check out our collecting first editions by the year.
Collecting the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Born in the midst of the Great Depression, the theme of the 1939 World’s Fair was “The World of Tomorrow” - a theme that captured the hearts of a generation. Check out the maps, souvenirs, and other ephemera on Biblio!
