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Shot in the Heart
by Gilmore, Mikal
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385422938
- ISBN 13
- 9780385422932
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1994-05-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Doubleday, 1994; Special Bookseller's Preview edition, signed and numbered on special signature/limitation page (this copy #513/625); housed in special slipcase; publisher's promo letter laid-in. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Slipcase in very good condition. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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
- The Book House in Dinkytown
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 270560
- Title
- Shot in the Heart
- Author
- Gilmore, Mikal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385422938
- ISBN 13
- 9780385422932
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994-05-01
- X weight
- 32 oz
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About The Book House in Dinkytown
Used books bought and sold, classics and collectibles in all fields. In Dinkytown since 1976.
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