Captain of the Sleepers

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Captain of the Sleepers. For fifty years, Andrés Yasin has carried a grudge against J. Bunker. Now eighty-three-years-old and dying, Bunker wants to tell his side of the story, the story of his affair with Estela, Andrés's mother. For fifty years, Andrés Yasin has carried a grudge against J.

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Beautifully translated by Edith Grossman, Captain of the Sleepers is a startling tale of remembrance and reality, and Mayra Montero's finest book : “ Captain of the Sleepers is an evocative, haunting story, as fatalistic, moody and inevitable as a Greek tragedy.” — January Magazine “Montero artfully choreographs the confluence of family, romantic and revolutionary ardor.” — Publishers Weekly “Montero charts the chilling undercurrents.

Then the full truth emerges years later in St. Croix, as “the captain of the sleepers” prepares for his final flight. Montero—who has a wizard’s ability to transfix readers’ attention as she peels away successive, deceptive layers of plot and meaning—has never written better than in.

Known as Captain of the Sleepers in the ’s, Bunker was a pilot who transported those who died on the mainland back to the island for burial, a common practice at the time. As a child, Andres believed that “the corpses transported by the Captain in his small plane were travelers who had fallen asleep.”.

Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew Bunker as the "Captain of the Sleepers"--So called because he transported the bodies of those who had died off Pages:   Sleeper (colloq.): 1.

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This is the story of four young boys/5. In chapters that alternate between past and present, this slip of a novel recounts the pain of a child witnessing his parents' infidelities.

J.T. Bunker is the "Captain of the Sleepers," a small-time pilot who falls in love with the narrator's mother and begins transporting cadavers, or "sleepers" as the narrator calls them, from mainland Puerto Rico to Vieques-they want to be buried at home.

Captain of the Sleepers is an evocative, haunting story, as fatalistic, moody and inevitable as a Greek tragedy. "Sleep tight", says the Captain at the end of the novel. As if Andrés -- or the reader -- will be able to.

| September Captain of the Sleepers, Book Review. Captain of the Sleepers Mayra Montero, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator ; trans.

by Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (p) ISBN Captain of the Sleepers [Signed by both Author and Translator] New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (tiny push to the spine head and an even tinier push to the spine tail), in a Fine dust jacket, CONTEMPORARILY SIGNED AND DATED BY BOTH MAYRA MONTERO AND EDITH GROSSMAN; an erotic novel that moves.

Sleepers is a novel about four boys who are sexually abused at a school for boys, and later exact revenge on their tormentors. It was made into a film starring Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, and Robert De Niro, among others. However there is a lot of skepticism about whether the story is actually true.

In the book, Mr. Carcaterra writes about himself (played in the film by Jason Patric) and three. Sleepers is a American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name.

The film stars Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver and Vittorio by: John Williams. Read "Captain of the Sleepers A Novel" by Mayra Montero available from Rakuten Kobo. For fifty years, Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J.T.

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As a child Andres knew Bunker as the "Captain of the Sleepers"-so called because he transported the bodies of those who had died off the island, but wished to be buried at home. Sleepers is a thriller, to be sure, but it is equally a wistful hymn to another age.”—The Washington Post Book World “A powerful book, hard to forget Carcaterra is an excellent writer, changing pace here and there but never letting the reader go/5(8).

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