GANGSTER is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate - and an unforgettable epic of a family, aĪND LISTEN AS LORENZO TALKS TO PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ABOUT GANGSTER But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create.Ī sweeping panorama with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, GANGSTER is a novel that travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters even more barbaric betrayals - in friendship, in his brutal business, in love - yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen.Īs the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. In GANGSTER, he creates a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.īorn in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family - the criminals who preside over early twentieth-century New York.

These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun.

Gangster by lorenzo carcaterra