{"product_id":"shot-in-the-heart-9780385478007","title":"Shot in the Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, \u003ci\u003eShot in the Heart\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eexposes 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. \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. 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.\" \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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385478007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\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\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/24\/1995 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/1995 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1995 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/1995\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mikal Gilmore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636794814620,"sku":"9780385478007","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bdebe690-e89f-42a7-b85e-ac6563162d8e.jpg?v=1603842988","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shot-in-the-heart-9780385478007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}