Redemption (Fast novel)

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| name = Redemption

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| image = Redemhowardfast.jpg

| caption = Book cover for the hardcover first edition of the novel

| author = Howard Fast

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Romance, Legal drama novel

| publisher = Harcourt Brace & Company

| release_date = July 1999

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| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)

| pages = 288 pp (first edition, hardback)

| isbn = 0-15-100455-2

| isbn_note = (first edition, hardback)

| dewey = 813/.52 21

| congress = PS3511.A784 R44 1999

| oclc = 39728002

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Redemption is a 1999 novel written by Jewish writer Howard Fast, who wrote the novel Spartacus in the 1950s. Redemption is both a romance, a legal drama, and Fast's first suspense novel, 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. The novel is published by Harcourt Brace & Company.

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{{cite book

| author = Gale Research Company

| title = Something about the Author

| publisher = Gale Research

| issue = v. 107

| year = 1999

| isbn = 978-0-7876-3216-8

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=M3YYAAAAIAAJ

| access-date = 10 May 2018

| page = 80

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{{cite news

| last = Greenya

| first = John

| title = Thrillers

| url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-605901.html

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180511012921/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-605901.html

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 11 May 2018

| newspaper = The Washington Post

| access-date = 10 May 2018

| date = 8 August 1999

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{{cite news

| last = Harris

| first = Michael

| title = New Twist for a Master Storyteller

| date = 29 June 1999

| work = Los Angeles Times

| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-29-cl-51074-story.html

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180509123817/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/29/news/cl-51074

| archive-date = 9 May 2018

| url-status = live

| access-date = 10 May 2018

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{{cite news

| last = Hoyle

| first = John Christian

| title = There is a caring heart on Gotham's mean streets

| url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55435322.html

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180511013041/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55435322.html

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 11 May 2018

| work = The Christian Science Monitor

| access-date = 10 May 2018

| date = 12 August 1999

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{{cite book

| last = Sorin

| first = G.

| title = Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane

| publisher = Indiana University Press

| series = The Modern Jewish Experience

| year = 2012

| isbn = 978-0-253-00732-2

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Nj-bWkvg9kIC&pg=PA398

| access-date = 10 May 2018

| page = 398

| quote = 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 ...

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{{cite book

| last = Watson

| first = T.

| title = Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series

| publisher = Cengage Gale

| series = Contemporary Authors New Revision

| year = 2005

| isbn = 978-0-7876-7894-4

| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787667245

| url-access = registration

| access-date = 10 May 2018

| page = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787667245/page/143 143]

| quote = 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 ...

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