The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez
By Jimmy Breslin
By Jimmy Breslin
Category: Domestic Politics
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Feb 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307559630
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Praise
“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
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