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Lorenzo Carcaterra (born October 16, 1954) is an American writer of Italian descent. Hell’s Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. In April 2009, he joined True/Slant as a blogger.
Lorenzo Carcaterra, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers, A Safe Place, Apaches, Gangster, Street Boys, Paradise City, Chasers, Midnight Angels and The Wolf. He is a former writer/producer for Law & Order and has written for National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times Magazine, Details, and Maxim.
Oct 23, 1996 · But two questions hover over the film, directed by Barry Levinson and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra’s best-selling book of the same name: Is that statement accurate, and does Hollywood care?
Nov 5, 2019 · Sleepers. Lorenzo Carcaterra. Random House Publishing Group, Nov 5, 2019 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who...
- Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Random House Publishing Group, 2019
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- Sleepers
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This essay explores the interplay of literary and social memory in Lorenzo Carcaterra's prison and revenge memoir, Sleepers (1995), in particular its appropriation of Alexander Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–45) as both a literary template and a political marker.
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Bel Air Entertainment and Warner Bros. purchased the rights of the story in 2001 even prior to being completely written, and are working on the project with director Barry Levinson. Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the screenplay for the movie and will also be the executive producer.
