This is just as much Gabe’s story as it is Angelo’s, a contrast between a hard, cold story of death and violence, and a touching story of a boy coming of age. It is only the narrator, Gabe, who does that, because Angelo took him in and raised him to be his successor. Lorenzo Carcaterra never sugar-coats our view of Angelo. Even though he is the protagonist of this story, and a person for whom we feel some compassion, Angelo Vestieri is still a cold-blooded murderer, a mob boss, and an utterly ruthless individual. This story is very well written and told with an amazing degree of evenhandedness. And he lies dying a lonely and bitter man. He became one of the biggest crime bosses America had ever seen. He became a gangster at an early age, hardened by adversity and smart enough to be a survivor. He was born to an Italian immigrant in 1906 and was raised on the mean streets of lower Manhattan. In 1996, he lies dying in a hospital bed, but through the two people closest to him, we learn his fascinating and terrible story. Angelo Vestieri is a gangster in every sense of the word.
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