Freedomland / Richard Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Richard, 1949-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unmarried mothers--Fiction.

Unmarried mothers.

Women journalists--Fiction.

Women journalists.

New Jersey--Fiction.

New Jersey.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Price, Richard, 1949- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 546 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, [1998]

Summary:

A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. So begins Richard Price's new novel, a tale set on the same turf - Dempsy, New Jersey - as Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting? Right behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the biggest story of her career. As the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsy and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 signed by the author.

ISBN:

0767900243 :

OCLC:

38304507