The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez - Brossura

Breslin, Jimmy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1400046823 ISBN 13: 9781400046829

Casa editrice: Three Rivers Pr, 2003

Riassunto

A portrait of Eduardo Gutiérrez, an illegal immigrant worker in the U.S. hoping to secure a better future for himself and his would-be wife in Mexico, describes his tragic accidental death in November 1999 at a Brooklyn construction site, in a hard-hitting study of corruption, bad politics, and indifference to the lives and deaths of people who do not count. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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“Entertaining and swift . . . a must-read.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Breslin is the street-smart voice of old New York.”—Washington Post

“Riveting. . . . [Breslin is] a masterful muckraker . . . in the tradition of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair.” —Book magazine

“Breslin shows again that his instincts are good. . . . [He] has written an important book.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A short, bitter masterpiece.”—Playboy

“Breslin’s research is thorough, his writing seasoned and heartfelt—at times nothing short of poetic.” —Publishers Weekly

“Jimmy Breslin has . . . conjured up a great book. The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez reads as if it were written in a cold fury and it lingers in the mind with the moral satisfaction of a promise kept.” —Salon.com

“[Breslin] has used his pen to give voice to the forgotten....With a heart full of anger and compassion, Breslin makes the reader care about Gutiérrez and others like him whose American dreams so often turn into nightmares.”—Boston Globe

L'autore:

JIMMY BRESLIN has been writing a syndicated newspaper column for more than forty years. He is the author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and, most recently, the novel I Don’t Want to Go to Jail. He lives in New York City.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Three Rivers Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1400046823
• ISBN 13: 9781400046829
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224