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by: Donald Pfarrer
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780966754001
ISBN: 096675400X
Label: MS in a Bottle
Manufacturer: MS in a Bottle
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: February 02, 1999
Publisher: MS in a Bottle
Sales Rank: 2822809
Studio: MS in a Bottle
Editorial Review:
Book Description:
A young black man is stopped by cops on suspicion of rape. A fight breaks out and the kid is killed. Jeffrey Temple, the cop who threw the fatal punch, opposes the coverup contrived by his partners. The father of the dead kid, John Shipman, goes to the DA and demands justice. But what is justice? The narrative follows these two men, Temple and Shipman, towards a final, tragic climax.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Gripping and timely drama focusing on urban race relations.
Donald Pfarrer has created two memorable characters in Jeffery Temple, a white "has been" pro football player now turned cop, and John Shipman, a black businessman and Koren War veteran who has pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. The two become adversaries in a drama that becomes the ultimate moral test of their characters. Temple and Shipman is a fast-paced account of yet another tragic "racial incident" in American society. This unforgettable story has a broad appeal ... Read More
Rating:  - A serious articulation of justice in human relations.
Temple and Shipman, as I read it, is a work of literature, not just a crime novel. It explores the issue of justice in contemporary American racial relations, and does so by articulating the full intellectual and emotional range of this issue. It gives voice to perennial concerns about justice, which, with a few modifications of circumstance, are the same everywhere. And it tells the story very well. I could not put the book down, and even when I was twenty pages from the end I could not imagine ... Read More
Rating: - The sleeper of the year!
Don Pfarrer's novel Temple and Shipman may be the sleeper of the year, a subtle and powerful exploration into a racial incident in which a young black man is killed by a policeman. Pfarrer brings these people alive and we become more and more engrossed until the final scene becomes like a knife to the heart. This writer knows how to make a scene come alive by caressing the detail and in this, his third novel, we get a highly polished performance. A page turner.
Rating: - Powerful, Sensitive, Timely
Fast paced, realistic and suspenseful. Deals with both sides of a very complicated issue - namely race and police violence - in a balanced manner. The characters are believable, regardless of race. Pfarrer has tackled an important moral question with feeling and great sensitivity. At the same time he has written a crackling good novel. I found it difficult to put the book down.
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