Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely
human story.
--The Washington Post Book World
"A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra''s graphic narrative
grips like gunfire in a dark alley."
--The Atlanta Journal Constitution
"In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers
harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate
vengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tells
it all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum and
sheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it is
equally a wistful hymn to another age."
--The Washington Post Book World
"A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in its
emotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, but
biblical in its passion and scope."
--People
"SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of age
in Hell''s Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of the
brutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbingly
satisfying--climax worthy of the finest suspense novel. A
brilliant, troubling, important book."
--Jonathan Kellerman
"COMPELLING."
--USA Today
關於作者:
Lorenzo Carcaterra is the author of A Safe
Place: The True Story of a Father, a Son, a
Murder.He is married and has two children.
From the Hardcover edition.