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Freedomland (Paperback)

by Richard Price (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 546 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (20 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747542082
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747542087
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 512,220 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In Freedomland, Richard Price returns to the gritty terrain he first explored in Clockers. This time, the fictional (but all too convincing) urban eyesore of Dempsy, New Jersey, is convulsed by a high-profile carjacking. A single mom named Brenda Martin insists that a man stopped her car, yanked her from behind the wheel and drove off with the vehicle--and her young son. Behind these horrific facts looms another: the victim is white and the perpetrator is black. Immediately the racial calculus of American life comes to bear on the crime, which becomes a focus for long-smoldering animosities. As a three-ring circus of media, cops and gawkers converges on the crime scene, Dempsy and the adjoining white community of Gannon seem primed for an explosion. Price passes the narrative baton back and forth between Lorenzo Council, an ambitious black detective, and Jesse Haus, a no-less-ambitious reporter for the local paper. Lorenzo's street-smart, agitated voice is the more convincing of the two. Jesse, with her frantic compulsion to squeeze local colour from the crisis, never quite attains three dimensions--though her outsider's relationship to her material suggests some faint, fascinating echo of the author's. In any case, Price allows the story to proceed at an irresistible slow burn. His ear for dialogue is as sharp as ever and nobodycasts a colder or more accurate eye on our fin-de-siècle urban existence.


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A white woman stumbles into an inner-city hospital with a horrifying story: she has just been carjacked by a black man who was apparently unaware that her son was asleep on the back seat. As the search ensues, the detective begins to suspect that the woman is holding back a terrible truth.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Trying to make the best of a bad job, 27 Jul 2006
By Cazza (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Freedomland (Paperback)
There is no doubt that Price can write and write well. The characters he creates are well drawn, his descriptions of Gannon and Armstrong and the tensions that rise between the two areas are realistic and appropriately gritty.

However, I have two problems with this novel - one, it is way too long. The build up to the climax of the piece is too drawn out and could have easily been condensed by a couple of hundred pages. Two, the plot or lack of it. The book is marketed as a fast-paced thriller - it's anything but! I would have given anything for a few twists, car chases or women walking around in derelict buildings alone at night (never thought I'd hear myself say that, but I was desparate!). Instead, what we get is a lot of talking and driving and talking and walking and oh!talking again...that's it!

Liked the writing, shame about the story.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Slow going but worth the trawl, 11 Jul 2003
If you want a fast paced thriller this book isn't for you. It is slow and doesn't really concern with whats in the synopsis, but don't let that put you off. The depth of character and the relationships between the characters bring to life the slums of D-Town. I couldn't stop reading this book not due to the main story line but because of where the characters would end up. And when the story arrives at the institute in search of the little missing boy...fantastic! Read it!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Blow-by-blow-by-blow-by-blow-by ...., 10 Dec 1999
By h_mcgahan@yahoo.co.uk (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Freedomland (Hardcover)
In this attempted tear-jerker of an account of the discovery of the true kidnapper, several hundred pages of the cod action that takes place over the morning, noon and night of a few days leave the protagonists exhausted. But what a bind for the reader, who ploughs on hoping that the tempo is going to change, that Price is going to rediscover some of the wit and economy of "Ladies' Man", written before he bacame wise as to what sells books to Hollywood. Much has been made recently of the pros and cons of male writers putting themselves into the size 5s of their female heroes; Price seems intent on becoming the White Caucasian best suited to reflecting contemporary Afro-American angst. He wishes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A nailbiting thriller with political integrity and depth
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