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Shot in the Heart
- By: Mikal Gilmore
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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 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.
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One of the best books I’ve ever read
- By jilixi on 09-12-19
- Shot in the Heart
- By: Mikal Gilmore
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
One of the best books I’ve read
Reviewed: 05-29-22
I just finished the audiobook of "A Shot In The Heart" (non-fiction) and it's one of the best books I've ever read. It's a complete book: compelling and courageous writing, true crime story, meticulously researched, uncovered family secrets and many great characters, a heartbreaking memoir, very insightful and humanistic, the Mormon religion, turn-of-the-century (1900's) US historical perspective and many plot twists. I could not put it down. Highly recommend if you haven't read it.
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