Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

Shot in the Heart

Mikal Gilmore

416 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction crime memoir true crime dark slow-paced
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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 stu...

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Moods

dark 90%
emotional 90%
sad 90%
reflective 63%
challenging 36%
tense 36%
informative 18%
mysterious 18%

Pace

medium 54%
slow 45%

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