by Lorenzo Carcaterra · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099663614
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«Sleepers» is Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel, based on true events, published by Arrow in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Four childhood friends grow up in Hell's Kitchen, New York. After a prank goes wrong, they are sent to a reformatory where they suffer abuse and humiliation. Years later, two have become hitmen, and the four reunite in search of justice and revenge. A story of loyalty and friendship marked by violence and its consequences.
Originally published in 1995; this Arrow edition is from April 1996.
For readers of true crime and stories of loyalty and friendship; contains hard scenes of abuse.
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.
