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Autobiography/Memoir
Sleepers (memoir)
Lorenzo Carcaterra
1995
Lorenzo Carcaterra (b. 1954) is an American writer whose most famous book is Sleepers (1995), the story of an accident in 1967 that put him and 3 friends into a juvenile detention centre for at least 12 months. The boys were sexually and physically abused by the guards.
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