Shot In The Heart
Mikal Gilmore
From Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
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From Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Member Since 1996
About this Item
Fine in illustrated paper covered boards. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8" tall by 6" deep. Without a dust jacket as issue; but, contained within a fine black cloth covered slip case. 105 pages of text. The story of the execution of Gary Gilmore in 1977, the author's brother. Seller Inventory # TB23287
Bibliographic Details
Title: Shot In The Heart
Publisher: Doubleday,, New York:
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: Special Booksellers' Preview.
About this title
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
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