false 2010804 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191860453m/2010804.jpg 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 color from the crisis, never quite attains three dimensions--although 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 nobody casts a colder or more accurate eye on our fin-de-siècle urban existence.]]> 105786 11 523907 1998 Freedomland total:384|5:42|4:135|3:151|2:46|1:10| 384 1305 552 52 16481 3.75 5416 1278 42669290 88424 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.38 360 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 4 2 true Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 08:03:55 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:16:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 11257547 713595 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 5 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 29 23:00:14 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 23:07:29 -0800 2007 more...]]> 57101597 1693763 906208 0440226449 9780440226444 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179345486m/906208.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/906208.Freedomland 3.86 7 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 2 0 false Sat May 23 17:51:07 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 17:59:00 -0700 2009
I can't really put my finger on why I didn't like this more. I didn't like Brenda, mostly because I didn't trust her (the cynic in me, I suppose). I wasn't too fond of Lorenzo's interactions with B...more...]]> 5734148 349446 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 5 1 false Wed Sep 05 17:14:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 09:04:10 -0800 2009 30374375 159331 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Sun Aug 17 09:42:38 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 17:25:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 21300432 1009284 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 4 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 29 21:48:08 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 21:55:17 -0700 2008
Pric...more...]]> 74802143 1167588 2943595 0739322613 9780739322611 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255834140m/2943595.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2943595.Freedomland 4.00 1 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 color from the crisis, never quite attains three dimensions--although 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 nobody casts a colder or more accurate eye on our fin-de-siècle urban existence.]]> 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 00:52:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 00:56:48 -0700 2009 Lush Life, which I had heard rave reviews about and was slightly disappaointed in, - in my humble opinion, it did not live up to the hype. I found this book to be a much more entertaining read, everything tied in, eveything made sense, I cared about the characters. That held true to a much less...more...]]> 46640292 2041510 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 4 0 false Wed Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 17 09:56:34 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:52:43 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 41231866 49938 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 1 0 false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 29 17:31:11 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 05 18:42:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 47362350 751603 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 4 0 false Tue Feb 24 07:04:01 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:05:09 -0800 2009 28505928 13307 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 4 0 false Thu Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 28 08:54:04 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 10 10:31:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 49958175 251782 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 5 0 false Sat Mar 21 09:38:16 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:43:17 -0700 2009 65760627 1038238 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 09:09:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:05:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 38209061 1734843 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Thu Nov 20 05:56:30 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 10:26:14 -0800 2008 28587700 180883 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 00:23:54 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 15:03:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 20228314 88685 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 1 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 11:22:46 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 11:27:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 75077198 2105218 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 18:55:39 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 18:56:53 -0700 2009
Crime story that is beach book quality,]]> 61188173 2437074 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Fri Jun 26 09:52:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 09:53:53 -0700 2009 60649398 270358 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Mon Jun 22 10:55:37 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 10:57:01 -0700 2009 35935007 275188 105786 038533513X 9780385335133 48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171559535m/105786.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105786.Freedomland 3.40 384 --Elizabeth Laskey]]> 3 0 false Wed Oct 22 09:04:26 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 09:07:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2010804