Apropos of our conversation a few weeks back about hard-boiled fiction, I’m proud to say I have a review of the new Richard Price novel up at the New York Observer. The novel is definitely worth a read if your tastes run to procedurals — even if the new book is a bit disjointed compared to Freedomland (1998), which so powerfully dramatizes the paranoid and often subterranean racial tensions of the early Clinton years.
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2 responses to “Richard Price’s latest (Andrew)”
Thank you, Andrew — very nice. May be I will check out Freedomland.
I also suggest that whenever you have reviews out in other publications, you should provide a link to it here for A.B. readers.
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To Andrew’s Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser add Walter Kirn‘s Raymond Chandler and Saul Bellow. There’s also a link to the first chapter.
I’ve only just caught the rhyme of the protagonist’s surname with his author’s.
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