by Lorenzo Carcaterra · Ballantine Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780345401007
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«Gangster» is Lorenzo Carcaterra's crime saga novel, published by Ballantine Books in hardcover (384 pages, in English).
The story follows Angelo Vestieri, who flees his father and a past marked by violence to seek a second family in the organized crime of early twentieth-century New York. As he rises to become a mafia boss, Angelo experiences betrayals and discovers the meaning of loyalty; in his old age, he takes in Gabe, an abandoned boy, and must choose between the love he feels for him and his identity as a gangster.
Novel in English by the author of «Sleepers». First edition, originally published in 2001 by Ballantine Books.
For readers of family sagas and crime fiction set in the mafia and New York City.
Lorenzo Carcaterra is an American writer of Italian descent. Hell's Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. In April 2009, he joined True/Slant as a blogger. True/Slant ceased operations on July 31, 2010, after only being open for a little less than a year total.
