{"product_id":"shot-in-the-heart-9780385478007","title":"Shot in the Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090684309847,"sku":"9780385478007","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780385478007.jpg?v=1762273078","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shot-in-the-heart-9780385478007","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}