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An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge. They were four boys who shared everything - the laughter and bruises of an impoverished upbringing in New York's West Side. Then one of their pranks misfired - a man nearly died and they were sent away to a reformatory school. They they suffered the worst abuse the guards could inflict on them. They were forever scarred by their experiences. Eleven years later: two of them became killers for the mob. They met the ringleader of the guards who had abused them - and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. No one thought they would see the outside of a prison again - but the four friends banded together once more and in one last, audacious stand brought their own vengeance to the courtroom.
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Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story . . . Sleepers is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age. The Washington Post Book World
A gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra s graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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"
"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story . . . Sleepers is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age."--The Washington Post Book World
"A gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "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
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A gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra s graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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"
"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story . . . Sleepers is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age."--The Washington Post Book World
"A gut-wrenching piece of work . . . [Lorenzo] Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "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
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- PublisherArrow
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0099663619
- ISBN 13 9780099663614
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