The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date.
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 electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, 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 Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning increasingly ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story.
At once a suspenseful mystery and a brilliant portrait of two cities locked in a death-grip of explosive rage, Freedomland reveals the heart of the urban American experience--dislocated, furious, yearning--as never before. Richard Price has created a vibrant, gut-wrenching masterpiece whose images will remain long after the final, devastating pages.
From the Hardcover edition.
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这本小说简直就是一场情感的过山车,从头到尾都抓住了我的心。作者对人物心理的细腻刻画,让我仿佛能亲身感受到主角们内心的挣扎与渴望。特别是主人公在面对重大抉择时的那种犹豫不决和最终的释然,写得极其真实,让人感同身受。书中对人际关系的描绘也十分到位,那些微妙的误解、深藏的爱意,都通过恰到好处的对话和动作展现出来,丝毫没有刻意堆砌的痕迹。我尤其欣赏作者叙事节奏的把控,该快则快,该慢则慢,总能在我最需要喘息或沉浸的时候,给予恰当的留白。读完之后,合上书页,那种久久不能散去的余韵,让我忍不住反思自己生活中的一些选择。这不是一本读完就忘的作品,它更像是一面镜子,映照出人性深处的复杂与美丽。
评分情节的张力把握得太妙了!这本书的悬念设置得非常高明,不是那种靠突兀反转来制造惊喜的套路,而是通过日常的点滴积累,让潜在的冲突一点点发酵、升温,直到最后爆发时,让人觉得一切都是水到渠成,却又震惊于真相的残酷或奇妙。我是一个很容易被情节牵着走的人,这本书让我体验到了真正的“欲罢不能”。特别是中间有几处情节的反转,我完全没有预料到,但回想起来,作者早已埋下了无数细微的伏笔,简直让人拍案叫绝。它成功地在保持故事逻辑严密性的同时,最大限度地激发了读者的好奇心和代入感,阅读体验极为酣畅淋漓。
评分这本书展现了作者对社会议题非常深刻的洞察力。它不仅仅是一个关于个体命运的故事,更是在广阔的背景下,探讨了一些关于群体性焦虑、时代变迁对个体价值观冲击的宏大命题。作者没有给出简单的答案或廉价的道德评判,而是选择呈现复杂的现实,让读者自己去思考和感受。这种克制而有力的批判,比直白的宣讲要有力得多。我特别喜欢它在处理社会阶层差异和文化冲突时所持有的那种冷静而富有同理心的视角,让人在阅读故事的同时,也进行了一次深刻的社会反思。它超越了一般的娱乐消遣,具有了更深远的启示意义。
评分从头到尾,我都被这本书的结构完整性所折服。它就像一座精心搭建的建筑,每一个章节、每一个段落,都像是承重墙,牢固地支撑着整个故事的框架。叙事结构上采用了多线并进的方式,但在关键的节点上,这些看似分散的故事线又奇妙地交汇融合,形成一个完整且令人满意的闭环。很多小说在后半段会显得力不从心,或者收尾草率,但这本书的收束处理得极其漂亮,既解答了主要谜团,又为一些次要人物留下了恰到好处的回味空间。这种全局观和对结构艺术的掌控力,体现了作者非凡的功力和成熟的叙事思想,读起来有一种极大的满足感。
评分我必须说,这本书的文笔是它最令人惊艳的部分之一。那种充满画面感的描述,仿佛能直接将读者拉入故事发生的那个世界。无论是对自然景色的描绘,还是对特定场景氛围的营造,都达到了极高的水准。读起来一点都不觉得晦涩,反而有一种行云流水般的畅快感,尽管文字精炼,信息量却非常饱满。我常常需要停下来,回味某一个句子,欣赏它独特的韵律和力量。更难得的是,作者在保持这种高水准文笔的同时,叙事的主线却始终清晰有力,没有因为追求辞藻的华丽而让情节失焦。它给我的感觉是,每一个词语的选择都是经过深思熟虑的,服务于整体的艺术表达,而非单纯的炫技。
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