A Place Called Freedom [Paperback]

Ken Follett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett; Export ed edition (1996)
• ISBN-10: 0449225178
• ISBN-13: 978-0449225172
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,104,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ken Follett was only twenty-seven when he wrote the award-winning EYE OF THE NEEDLE, which became an international bestseller. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, will be published in Autumn 2007. He has since written several equally successful novels including, most recently, WHITEOUT. He is also the author of non-fiction bestseller ON WINGS OF EAGLES. He lives with his family in London and Hertfordshire.

Customer Reviews

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97 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and exciting, March 9, 2002

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Beverley Strong (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Place Called Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)

What a very fine writer Ken Follett is! Having read "The eye of the needle" many years ago, and more recently, "Pillars of the earth" and enjoyed them both very much,I just finished reading "A place called freedom".It took only 2 days as I couldn't put it down and for 2 nights, read into the small hours.An indentured Scottish coal miner, Mack McAsh, tries to force the hand of the mine owner into treating the down trodden miners with compassion and fairness. He is railroaded by the system and tranported as a convict to Virginia. This is a tale of a mans inhuman treatment and his fight fot freedom in the New World.It's a great read,well written,exciting and unputdownable.It could well have been made into an actioner movie

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent historical novel of the late 18th century, July 27, 1998

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Fred Camfield (Vicksburg, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Place Called Freedom (Hardcover)

This book was a change of pace for Ken Follett who has carried out some outstanding research into conditions in late 18th century Scotland, England, and the American colonies. The main character, who's ambition is the freedom to go his own way, comes up against the class structure of the times and the limited rights of the working man. This develops into a superb tale as the hero encounters first the conditions of servitude and slavery in Scotland, then the conditions of repression in England, and finally the conditions of bondage in Virginia. While it is historical fiction, the book is especially recommended for readers delving into conditions that brought people to the American colonies. Readers should be forewarned that the book has significant sexual content and some violence that would give it at best a PG-13 rating.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Book That Never Ends, April 18, 2002

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John G. Hilliard (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Place Called Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a bit disappointed in the author after reading this book. I think he was trying to build on the success that he had with Pillars of the Earth but this book falls far short of that classic. This book is more like a [$] mass-market teen-age Romance novel. There is nothing new hear except maybe the name, the plot is so predictable it is sad coming from such a good author. I knew how this book was going to end before it even started. He has written much better books, I would stay away from this book unless you are looking for a long love story.