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　　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.

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　　"I have a story to tell. It is a story of murder told from

inside the house where murder is born. It is the house where I grew

up, a house that, in some ways, I have never been able to

leave."

　　Mikal Gilmore is a Rolling Stone writer and the youngest brother

of murderer Gary Gilmore, who became, in 1977, the first person to

be executed in the United States after a 10-year hiatus, a case

which was subsequently recounted in Norman Mailer's The

Executioner's Song. This brave and eloquent book is the story that

only Mikal Gilmore knows: the violence in multiple generations of

his family, what the Gilmore house was like as he was growing up,

his relationship with his brother, and his experience of the

dramatic events surrounding Gary Gilmore's determination to be

executed as planned, without appeal. Shot in the Heart pulls off

the rare feat of conveying intense emotion without sentimentality

or self-pity. The author's struggle is to set himself apart from

the lurid true-crime fraternity of his father and brothers yet

remain able to understand why he feels both guilty and lonely over

his exclusion from his family's violent history. --Fiona

Webster

媒体评论

　　One of the most beautifully written, moving nonfiction books

published in the past five years. -- Deidre Donahue, USA

Today.

　　"Remarkable, astonishing... Shot in the Heart reads like a

combination of Brothers Karamazov and a series of Johnny Cash

ballads... chilling, heartbreaking, and alarming." -- Michiko

Kakutani, The New York Times.

　　"Mesmerizing... riveting and immensely moving... Shot in the

Heart is a gesture of sustained courage that just happens to be a

page-turner." -- Daphne Merkin,The New Yorker. -- Review

　　It is a dark, troubling book, Shot in the Heart, a book that

reads like a combination of The Brothers Karamazov and a series of

Johnny Cash ballads, a book whose anomalous combination of the

ordinary and the horrific is chilling, heartbreaking and alarming

all at once. -- New York Times, Michiko Kakutani

　　Mikal Gilmore's triumph is that he pushes his readers beyond

being helplessly enthralled witnesses to the point where, with him,

we might consider not only that violence and evil do exist within

the limits of predictable human behavior, but that there is

evidence of another equally mysterious force, which some of us

would call grace: the same grace that impelled Mikal Gilmore to

take up a pen instead of a gun and to write a very difficult memoir

with generosity and compassion. This may not be redemption, but it

is better than mere survival. -- New York Times Book Review,

Kathryn Harrison