SHOT IN THE HEART(ISBN=9780385478007)
"I have a story to tell. It is a story of murder told frominside the house where murder is born. It is the house where I grewup, a house that, in some ways, I have never been able toleave." Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brotherof murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person tobe executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a casewhich was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's TheExecutioner's Song. This brave and eloquent book is the story thatonly Mikal Gilmore knows: the violence in multiple generations ofhis family, what the Gilmore house was like as he was growing up,his relationship with his brother, and his experience of thedramatic events surrounding Gary Gilmore's determination to beexecuted as planned, without appeal. Shot in the Heart pulls offthe rare feat of conveying intense emotion without sentimentalityor self-pity. The author's struggle is to set himself apart fromthe lurid true-crime fraternity of his father and brothers yet
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