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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrezby: Jimmy Breslin  List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 331.627207471092 EAN: 9781400046829 ISBN: 1400046823 Label: Three Rivers Press Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: February 25, 2003 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: February 25, 2003 Studio: Three Rivers Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Jimmy Breslin's The Story of Eduardo Gutierrez tells the unspeakably sad tale of a young illegal Mexican immigrant who died working at a New York City construction site. The man, who drowned in November 1999 after falling three stories into wet cement, was employed by a builder--"a crook with blueprints" Breslin writes--whose record of building code violations was long and well known, but who stayed in business because of his "untouchable" political status. Breslin weaves Gutierrez's story with one of blatant corruption reaching from Brooklyn's Hasidic community through Rudolph Giuliani's administration and Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign to her husband's last-minute presidential pardons. Breslin writes with white-hot anger and thorough disgust--he says of New York officials that "many are paid and few are apprehended." At the center is the shy, 22-year-old Gutierrez, whose journey to help his family ended in loneliness, exploitation, fear, and, finally, death. --H. O'Billovitch Product Description: The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San MatÃas Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé chronicles the life and tragic death of an undocumented worker, along with broader issues of municipal corruption and America’s deadly and controversial border policy. Average Rating:
 Rating: - a sad tale given justice by a great writerJustice shall you pursue. This is Jimmy Breslin at his best, it reads like he talks, which can cause you to read a sentence twice or three times, but you get used to it. Eduardo Gutierrez was an illegal immigrant from Mexico; he was barely 21 years old when he was killed in a construction accident in Brooklyn on November 23, 1999. Born in San MatÃas Cuatchatyotla, to a very shy 15 year old woman, he lived a lonely life filled with fear in Brighton Beach/Brooklyn, sharing one bathroom and an apartment ... Read More 
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