Sleepers - A true story

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Arrow Books

1996

374 páginas

12h 28m

ISBN-13: 0_09_962871_6

Português Brasileiro

A book with a punch equal to its publicity hype! Journalist Carcaterra tells with gripping force of his days growing up in the tough New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s (the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty). He and his three closest buddies engaged in petty crime until the day their tricks got out of hand and escalated into a major offense, for which they were sent to a juvenile home in upstate New York. They were tormented during their months there, not by other young inmates but by their adult guards, who brutalized them relentlessly in a program of horror and torture that included rape. Once out, once grown up, one of the boys became a lawyer, and through a bizarre twist of events worthy of being turned into a movie (in fact, the movie rights have been sold, with Barry Levinson lined up as director), he, Carcaterra, and the other two friends expose the horrible wrongs they suffered in that detention home. Both difficult to read and difficult to put down, this book will garner lots of attention, and as a result, readership demand will be high. Brad Hooper --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5 (Perfeito)

Fazendo uma consulta na internet vi que existe uma controvérsia entre ser ou não uma história real. De qualquer maneira, não importa, o livro é um choque após o outro no relato cruel dos rumos que a vida de cada um pode tomar por decisões de segundos... Todos sabemos da brutalidade da qual a humanidade é capaz e isso me faz pensar que se esses fatos não aconteceram no tempo e no espaço citados, tenho certeza de que em algum lugar, pelas mãos de alguém, tudo isso se consuma. É um mergulho na barbárie onde não se combate o erro, mas se animaliza o errado. Livro doído de se ler, maldade impossível de ser compreendida. Nota " B" de brilhante!