Freedomland: A Novel - Softcover

"A big, cinemascope thriller, a novel that captures the racial politics and media madness of the Age of O.J., a novel that transforms today's headlines into a forceful, harrowing drama....a terrific read...Price has written his most powerful novel yet."
--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Praise for Richard Price and his work:

"Price shows that he's got the best equipment a novelist can have--that combination of muscularity, insight, and compassion we might call heart."
--Washington Post Book World

"Price pressure cooks the city down to its dense, searing essentials."
--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"Powerful...harrowing...a drama of quite remarkable complexity."
--the New York Times on Clockers

"Clockers is a great piece of work."
--Tom Wolfe

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)