Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Redemption (Fast novel)
At the time of nomination in Special:Diff/799904668/840226519, the article was indeed not unreferenced, and that aside, notability is based on |the existence of suitable sources, not on the state of sourcing in an article, and sources are only found when |we go looking for them. I had Special:Diff/840226519/840531526|no problems adding citations to six good sources: bylined reviews from ''Los Angeles Times'',{{cite news |last=Harris |first=Michael |title=New Twist for a Master Storyteller |date=29 June 1999 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/29/news/cl-51074 |archive-url=http://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}} ''The Christian Science Monitor'',{{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 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |access-date=10 May 2018 |date=12 August 1999}} {{Subscription required | via = HighBeam}} and ''The Washington Post'',{{cite news |last=Greenya |first=John |title=Thrillers |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-605901.html |work=The Washington Post |access-date=10 May 2018 |date=8 August 1999}} {{Subscription required | via = HighBeam}} as well as several {{tl|cite book}}s.{{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}}{{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 ...}}{{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://books.google.com/books?id=E8NC9lyOiM4C |access-date=10 May 2018 |page=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 ...}} The article more than meets {{sclx|GNG}} now
— User:Sam, 14:09, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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