{"product_id":"shot-in-the-heart-national-book-critics-circle-award-winner-9780385478007","title":"Shot in the Heart: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16158781\"\u003eMikal Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.30w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385478007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385478003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO024000\"\u003eCriminals \u0026amp; Outlaws\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRU\"\u003eTrue Crime\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRU002000\"\u003eMurder | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43827224051851,"sku":"9780385478007","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_ff02fe3c-a1ca-408c-9dd1-10719b8333c1.jpg?v=1755527899","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/shot-in-the-heart-national-book-critics-circle-award-winner-9780385478007","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}