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Freedomland

Freedomland

by RichardPrice (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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    Paperback 1999

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    Hardcover 1998

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Synopsis

An injured woman stumbles into an inner-city hospital with a horrifying story: she has just been carjacked by a man who was apparently unaware that her son was asleep on the back seat. As a search ensues, a shrewd detective and an ambitious young reporter smell a hoax and begin to suspect that the woman is holding back a terrible truth: could she have murdered her own child?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Edition: Media tie-in
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 05 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 0747574197
ISBN 13: 9780747574194
Book Overview: Freedomland has been made into a film to be released in the UK in April 06. It is directed by Joe Roth and stars Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson Freedomland sold nearly 14,000 copies in paperback already Film will boost already growing support and profile for Richard Price following Samaritan

Media Reviews
'A hugely ambitious, searing novel ... Freedomland is a dazzling novel and makes for compulsive reading' Glasgow Herald 'A compelling portrait of America's flipside and a novel that obliges you (as Dickens did) to engage with it ... Not since Toni Morrison's Beloved have I read a new novel with such emotional force' Independent 'Taut and pulsating ... like Steve Bochco writing scripts for NYPD Blue, Price's work patrols the margins of the American underclass' Daily Express 'Richard Price has the soul of a poet, the ear of a screenwriter and the narrative ambition of a classic urban realist. His novels are sprawling, lyrical, down 'n' dirty accounts of those whom the American Dream has passed by' Arena
Author Bio
Richard Price is the author of seven other novels; one of which, Clockers, was made into a film directed by Spike Lee. He has also written numerous screenplays, including Sea of Love, Ransom, and The Color of Money for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times and Esquire, and he has taught fiction writing at Yale, NYU, and Columbia. Price and his family live in Manhattan.