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Shot in the Heart
by Gilmore, Mikal
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385422938
- ISBN 13
- 9780385422932
- Seller
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San Pedro, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xii, [404p.] 1st printing. Signed by author on title page. Haunting story of Rolling Stone magazine feature writer Gilmore's family and his brother Gary. Bottom page edges lightly soiled, clear jacket is rubbed with spine sunned. Jacket design by Whitney G. Cookman. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Champ & Mabel Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H7462
- Title
- Shot in the Heart
- Author
- Gilmore, Mikal
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385422938
- ISBN 13
- 9780385422932
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- MURDER UNITED STATES VIOLENCE Gilmore Family Mikal Gary
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY;
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About the Seller
Champ & Mabel Collectibles
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About Champ & Mabel Collectibles
Champ & Mabel Collectibles has been selling secondhand books online since 1998.
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
We have a general collection of 20th and 21st century fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on American history (focusing on California).
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