A moving true story (Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra)

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Product:	Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Date:	25/11/00 (674 review reads)
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Advantages: good read

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The book Sleepers is an exact copy of the film, it is true story and very horrific at parts underlying systematic physical and sexual abuse condemned to four friends who are sent to a boys prison called the Wilkinson home for boys after a prank goes horribly wrong.

It is to change their young lives and after their twelve months at the home, their lives will never ever be the same. Lorenzo, Michael, john and Tommy were best friends and hung out together and lived near by in the deprived part of New York. The Wilkinson Home for boys changes their lives in the worst possible way it can, they are subjected to violent rapes by the wardens who target them as a source of inhumane entertainment.

Each occasion is described in the book, and when you read it, it makes you sick, angry, that people of authority were abusing their position to the worst possible extreme, and what was worst they were let to get away with it. The boys leave the Home twelve moths later each a different person, each never wanting to re call what happened to them in the Wilkinson Home For Boys.

When they leave the home, they go different ways, one becomes a journalist, one a lawyer, and the other two find ways to deal with what happened by rejecting Society and rebelling against it, and ultimately become killers of the wardens that caused them so much grief.

They all work together to try to persuade the jury that John and Tommy are not the killers, Michael the lawyer works for the prosecution and in doing so does a wonderful job at disguising the fact he actually wants to lose the case. In a final twist justice is done, but never are lives of the four people going to be the same, John and Tommy lose their lives and they go away their separate ways never returning to the place that destroyed them and made then pay in the worst possible way for a prank.

This is such a sad book, though they may have come face to f
ace with the tormentors, that was not enough to diminish the pain they had inside. An excellent read, which can reduce to tears throughout. It is similar to the film but just as enthralling if you have seen the film.

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