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Freedomland approaches the positively Ballardesque in its superabundance of ruination: a county jail, a mental hospital, and most portentously Freedomtown, the second-rate Dempsy version of the old New York City theme park, itself long since torn down (and replaced by the towers of Co-op City), to which the novel's title alludes.
In Priceland Chabon, Michael 2008
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In a future memory, young parents desperate to find their lost son cross paths with a boy who is altogether different in this Ballardesque parable filled with cold tension and stark fear.
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