Lush Life - Softcover

Price, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594133050 ISBN 13: 9781594133053

Publisher: Large Print Pr, 2009

Synopsis

A National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, it's residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the "other" lower east side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the "new" New York.

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Review:

Amazon Significant Seven, March 2008: No one has a better ear and eye for the American city than Richard Price, and in Lush Life, his first novel in five years, he leaves the fictional environs of Dempsy, New Jersey, where Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan were set, for a few crowded blocks of Manhattan's Lower East Side. There's a crime at the heart of the story, but you don't read Price for plot. Instead, you listen as he peels apart layers of class and history through the way his characters talk to each other: hipster bartenders who tell people they're really writers, homeboys from housing projects named after the Jewish immigrants who have long left the neighborhood, and cops, cops, cops, circling the streets looking for a collar, disappearing into their cases as their own lives go to ruin. --Tom Nissley

About the Author:

Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series The Wire. 

Bobby Cannavale won an Emmy Award for his guest appearance on the hit TV show Will & Grace.  His other TV credits include Third Watch, Ally McBeal, Law & Order, Oz, and Six Feet Under.  

About this edition

• Publisher: Large Print Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1594133050
• ISBN 13: 9781594133053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 705