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...Richardson's literary interests are not confined to Conan Doyle mysteries. Sargent says he is impressed by Richardson's "very wide scope of interests; he has knowledge that is much more than the average reader's in any area...
...famously avid reader of self-help books, and it shows when he says things like "The Magellan within all of us is going to save us." It's a reference not to mutual funds but to the Portuguese explorer, by way of The Truman Show, which Carrey likes to see as an allegory about self-actualization: "It's a hopeful story. It's about a man who will not be beaten. Presented with a challenge, he becomes the explorer he always wanted to be. In my best scenario, I want to turn out to be Truman Burbank. I want...
...America now: the destruction of families and absence of parents, the astonishingly pervasive presence of drugs and gun violence, a sort of postmodern lostness and indiscipline. The self-absorbed fecklessness of the adults--the abdicated parents in most of these dramas, often useless druggies and alcoholics themselves--makes the reader despise them in a way he never quite hated Pap Finn...
...Clockers, his 1992 novel about the drug trade in a worn-down wasteland of urban New Jersey, Richard Price creates in his new novel, Freedomland (Broadway Books; 546 pages; $25), a thriller in which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most powerful impression a reader feels in these two novels is the sense, in a scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like. And that...
...Price's story, this would be pompous. But the author doesn't offer a moral, simply an accurate portrayal of a society all of whose visible elements--cops, press, E.R. medics, pastors, mothers' groups, gawkers and stone throwers--take their energy from pain. A reliable energy source, the reader reflects; bloody hands make the world go 'round...