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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
August 1, 1995
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679447504
ISBN-10
0679447504
Dimensions
1 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$18.00
Other format details
audio
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Years after being sent to reform school in upstate New York, the author and four friends are repeatedly raped and brutalized by four sadistic guards, two of the boys, now hired killers, confront one of the guards and kill him, in a story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice. Simultaneous.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "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
From the Paperback edition.
--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
From the Paperback edition.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Ballantine Books (September 1, 1995)
9780345396068 | details & prices | 404 pages | 9.75 × 6.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $23.00
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (April 1, 1996)
9780345404114 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $7.99
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later
Miscellaneous
from Ballantine Books (September 22, 2010)
9780307756657 | details & prices | 384 pages | List price $7.99
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Joe Mantegna (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Random House (February 1, 2001)
9780375416705 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $9.99
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later.
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Random House (August 1, 1995)
9780679447504 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $18.00
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later.
About: A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later.
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