Books
April, 2002
Immigrant NightmaresThe Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez (Crown) is a short, bitter masterpiece. Gutierrez was a 21-year-old illegal immigrant who was killed in a construction accident in Brooklyn in 1999. According to the book, the developers had ''major fund-raising ties to the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,'' which is why the story should have played well in the press. But Gutierrez' name received scant coverage. In the stark, direct prose that marks his style, Jimmy Breslin...
