Redemption (Fast novel)

1999 novel by Howard Fast

Redemption

Book cover for the hardcover first edition of the novel

Author| Howard Fast
Language| English
Genre| Romance, Legal drama novel
Publisher| Harcourt Brace & Company

Publication date

| July 1999
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages| 288 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN| 0-15-100455-2 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC| 39728002

Dewey Decimal

| 813/.52 21
LC Class| PS3511.A784 R44 1999

Redemption is a 1999 novel written by American writer Howard Fast, who wrote the novel Spartacus in the 1950s. Redemption is both a romance, a legal drama,[1] and Fast's first suspense novel,[2][3] depicting Ike Goldman, an old professor emeritus falling in love with a woman named Elizabeth, who is later accused of her ex-husband's murder.[4][5] The novel is published by Harcourt Brace & Company.[6]

## References

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1. ^ Harris, Michael (June 29, 1999). "New Twist for a Master Storyteller". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
2. ^ Hoyle, John Christian (August 12, 1999). "There is a caring heart on Gotham's mean streets". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on May 11, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
3. ^ Greenya, John (August 8, 1999). "Thrillers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on May 11, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
4. ^ Sorin, G. (2012). Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane. The Modern Jewish Experience. Indiana University Press. p. 398\. ISBN 978-0-253-00732-2. Retrieved May 10, 2018. "Fast's protagonists in Redemption (1999) were drawn directly from his own recent experience. Ike Goldman, a widower and retired university professor, is like Fast a leftist veteran of earlier political wars; and Elizabeth (Liz) Hopper, thirty years Ike's junior, is like Mimi a depressed and abused former wife, who though a deeply religious, conventraised Catholic, contemplates suicide. Liz is talked out of jumping off a bridge by Ike, and both are "redeemed" by their new love. The novel, one ..."
5. ^ Watson, T. (2005). Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Contemporary Authors New Revision. Cengage Gale. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-7876-7894-4. Retrieved May 10, 2018. "Driving through New York City one night, he sees a woman, Elizabeth, about to jump from a bridge. He talks Elizabeth out of her desperate act and, in the weeks that follow, finds himself falling in love with her. The two are planning to wed, when Elizabeth's ex-husband is found dead in suspicious circumstances, making her a suspect. Goldman does all he can to aid in her defense, but as the evidence against her mounts, his own doubts about her innocence increase. "The story moves ..."
6. ^ Gale Research Company (1999). Something about the Author. Gale Research. p. 80\. ISBN 978-0-7876-3216-8. Retrieved May 10, 2018.

## External links

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* Amazon.com entry
* Flemming, Robert. "BookPage Fiction Review: Redemption". bookpage.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2018.

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Works by Howard Fast

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* "The First Men" (1960)

Novels|

* My Glorious Brothers (1948)
* The Proud and the Free (1950)
* Spartacus (1951)
* April Morning (1961)
* Power (1962)
* The Hessian (1972)
* The Immigrants (1977)
* Max (1982)
* Redemption (1999)

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