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Since there no longer seems to be such a thing as bad publicity, Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers (Ballantine; 404 pages; $23) can be deemed a resounding success even before it hits the best-seller lists. Not only has Hollywood paid $2.1 million for the film rights. Better yet, Carcaterra's self-described "true story" has prompted newspaper articles containing charges that parts or all of the book are simply the author's inventions...
...since Joe McGinniss began dreaming up things that Senator Edward M. Kennedy might have thought, in "The Last Brother" (1993), has there been such an elastic and accommodating definition of nonfiction as shown in Lorenzo Carcaterra's new book (Ballantine; 404 pages; $23). The story purports to be a true account of how a young Lorenzo, along with three childhood friends from New York's Hell's Kitchen, were sent to an upstate New York correctional facility, where they were repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured by four sadistic guards. Or were they? Lorenzo swears his account is true, but admits...
...THOMAS CARCATERRA...