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Freedomland by Richard Price (2005, Paperback, Reprint) 
Freedomland by Richard Price (2005, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Freedomland by Richard Price (2005, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Delta
Publication Date: 2005-11-29
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 038533513X
ISBN-13: 9780385335133
Product ID: EPID46021416
Description: When a white woman appears in the emergency room of an inner-city hospital wounded and bleeding and tells police that she had been carjacked by a black man who drove off with her young son in the back seat, a furious manhunt ensues. Lore...
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Synopsis
When a white woman appears in the emergency room of an inner-city hospital wounded and bleeding and tells police that she had been carjacked by a black man who drove off with her young son in the back seat, a furious manhunt ensues. Lorenzo Council, a black detective assigned to the case, begins to have doubts about the woman's story. Jesse Haus, a reporter for a local paper, also begins to suspect the mother's veracity and tries to befriend her as a way of learning the true facts. In the meantime, residents of the black housing projects become increasingly angry at the severity of the police investigations, and demagogues within the community take advantage of the situation to foment violence and rebellion. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998, Hollywood adapted FREEDOMLAND into a 2006 film of the same name, starring Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson.

Details
Publication Date:2005-11-29
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:655 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:17.9 oz

Publisher's Note
An edgy young reporter and a good cop are thrust into the center of an accusation involving a hijacked car, a missing boy, and an embattled neighborhood consumed by racism, distrust, and suspects. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (A Revolution Studios/Sony Pictures Entertainment film, written by Richard Price, direced by Joe Roth, releasing December 2005, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, & Edie Falco) (Suspense)

Industry Reviews
"Price has written his most powerful novel yet, a novel that in wrestling with what Tom Wolfe calls the 'rude beast' of millennial America, holds up a dark mirror to our times."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (05/12/1998)

"FREEDOMLAND is infinitely more than a detective story. Despite its hipness, its up-to-the-moment street jive and cops-and-robbers jargon, it aspires to the heft and weight of a 19th-century Russian classic. It has that same capacity to shake up our unexamined assumptions about sin and forgiveness."
New York Times Book Review - Francine Prose (06/07/1998)

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