Lorenzo carcaterra sleepers novel
Sleepers
Lorenzo carcaterra.
Sleeper (colloq.): 1. out-of-town hit man who spends the night after a local contract is completed. 2.
Lorenzo carcaterra sleepers novel
A juvenile sentenced to serve any period longer than nine months in a state-managed facility.
This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends.
Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable.
Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the
closed world of New York City's Hell's Kitchen.
And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. They never get caught.
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And they know they never will.
Until one disastrous summer afternoon.
On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horribly wrong. And the four find themselves facing a year's imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys.
The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve. What happens to them over the course of that year -- brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation -- will change their lives forever.&nbs